Plenty of cafes these days will let you take home some used coffee grounds, to put on your garden. It’s a versatile material with loads of potential uses - as long as you treat it properly first.
High streets are being taken over in a battle between specialty cafés and the
mega chains.
Climate change could severely impact the world’s coffee-producing nations and turn a cup of decent java into a luxury in the years to come.
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By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no longer be arable. Climate change is changing the game to such an extent that Canada could one day become a coffee producer.
What can you do to ensure a more perfect brew?
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The science behind why what your barista achieves at the cafe tastes better than what you can come up with at home.
Around 100 coffee shops known as café con piernas – coffee with legs – operate within a five-kilometre radius of the Santiago CBD.
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Coffee and sex are both highly marketable commodities. But who would have thought that the capital of one of Latin America’s most socially conservative countries would combine them in its cafes?
Warning: may contain faecal bacteria.
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Many people are confused about what they can and can’t recycle, and whether they need to clean everything before it goes in the bin. The best plan is to check the details with your local council.
With so many choices for coffee, it’s hard to know which is the environmentally healthy option.
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In wartime, food and drink may be a weapon or embodiment of the enemy, but also ‘a token of hope, a soothing relief’. In East Timor, coffee has played a vital role.
Drinking coffee at work has a range of benefits.
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From luxuries like champagne to the very livelihoods of fishing communities in the developing world – the climate-driven shifts in species will affect us all.