Hard to consider that a cup of coffee might be at risk because climate change is threatening those precious arabica plants a new report shows.
"Climate change is threatening to put wild arabica coffee at risk of near extinction by 2080, a new study shows.
The "moderate" predictions from researchers at Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew with scientists in Ethiopia show that indigenous arabica plants, a bank of genetic diversity for the cultivated crop, face a "profoundly negative influence" from a warming planet.
"The extinction of arabica coffee is a startling and worrying prospect," said study co-author author Aaron Davis, head of coffee research at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
The researchers looked at three possible emission scenarios over three time intervals -- 2020, 2050 and 2080 -- in 349 localities across south-western Ethiopia, south-eastern South Sudan and northern Kenya:
"Our modelling shows a profoundly negative trend for the future distribution of indigenous Arabica coffee under the influence of accelerated global climate change," according to the study."
"Climate change is threatening to put wild arabica coffee at risk of near extinction by 2080, a new study shows.
The "moderate" predictions from researchers at Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew with scientists in Ethiopia show that indigenous arabica plants, a bank of genetic diversity for the cultivated crop, face a "profoundly negative influence" from a warming planet.
"The extinction of arabica coffee is a startling and worrying prospect," said study co-author author Aaron Davis, head of coffee research at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
The researchers looked at three possible emission scenarios over three time intervals -- 2020, 2050 and 2080 -- in 349 localities across south-western Ethiopia, south-eastern South Sudan and northern Kenya:
"Our modelling shows a profoundly negative trend for the future distribution of indigenous Arabica coffee under the influence of accelerated global climate change," according to the study."
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