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COFFEE

Caffeine is the world’s most popular psychoactive drug, and many of us choose to imbibe it via a cup of coffee in the morning. But a 2017 study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that climate change threatens both areas where coffee crops grow, and a key species that’s responsible for about 20 to 25% of coffee bean production – bees.

The ecological community formed between coffee crops and pollinators, such as bees, is both a delicate and integral one. When bees pollinate coffee crops, they not only widen the yield of the crops, but they also increase the quality of the beans.

Unfortunately, rising temperatures and unpredictable weather could repel bees with lower heat tolerances from pollinating coffee plants. Additionally, 88% of Latin America’s coffee-suitable areas could reduce by 2050.