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   Huge to RS Wood   
   Re: coffee plants in danger as climate w   
   21 Jan 19 16:55:51   
   
   From: Huge@nowhere.much.invalid   
      
   On 2019-01-21, RS Wood  wrote:   
   > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/21/coffee_extinction_threat/   
   >   
   > A study led by researchers at the UK's Royal Botanical Gardens   
   > indicates at least a whopping 60 per cent of all 124 coffee species are   
   > under threat of annihilation by climate change and deforestation. Their   
   > findings were published this month in Science Advances and Global   
   > Change Biology.   
   >   
   > The coffee industry is dominated by the Arabica and Robusta species,   
   > and is reliant on the farming of wild coffee crops.   
      
   Really? I wonder what all those miles of coffee plantantions we passed   
   in Kenya were about, then?   
      
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