DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane CLIMATE CHANGE: BRINGING MY FAVORITE COFFEE BEANS TO EXTINCTION? Source: Stock By 2050, Climate Change will have rendered unproductive half of the land currently used to grow high quality coffee. Here's what we know: Higher temperatures threaten coffee bean growth Scientists are searching for a wild grown bean that is heat and drought resistant 60 of the world's 120+ coffee bean varieties could become extinct One possible solution: a coffee plant discovered in Sierra Leone that is heat and drought tolerant Called Stenop...