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Local upstart Luckin Coffee takes on U.S. rival Starbucks in China
When Starbucks came to China two decades ago, it promised to open a new store every 15 hours. Now a homegrown rival, Luckin Coffee, plans to build a high-tech shop every 3½ hours to dethrone the U.S. giant. The Chinese upstart is burning through millions ...
Warming and deforestation threatening coffee species, including Ethiopia's Arabica, scientists warn
Climate change and deforestation are putting more than half the world's wild coffee species at risk of extinction, including the popular commercial coffees Arabica and Robusta, scientists warned on Wednesday. Research published by experts at Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew found that current conservation ...
35Coffee: An inspired partnership between coffee and coral
35Coffee is using the profits from its coffee sales to plant new coral across Okinawa Prefecture
Simplicity rules in Starbucks' seasonal sesame creations
Starbucks Japan's "Japan Wonder Project" offers a nice snapshot of the nation's soft-power campaigns in general. This campaign, which has been going on for over a year now, celebrates Japanese flavors. The range is mostly consumed, though, by Japanese people, already familiar with the ...
The third-wave coffee boom has resulted in a new wave of java-related Japanese vocabulary
Coffee talk is more than just cream and sugar when it comes to cafes that specialize in third-wave coffee.
Kurasu: Yozo Otsuki's blend of coffee and lifestyle
Kurasu — a romanized rendition of the Japanese word for "to live," or "lifestyle" — is a multifaceted business that combines an online shop, a monthly coffee subscription service, brick-and-mortar cafes in Kyoto and Singapore and, opening in Kyoto in December, its own roastery.
El Nino may cut Colombia's rainfall by 80% in early 2019, posing fire threat: minister
The El Nino weather phenomenon could reduce rainfall in Colombia by 80 percent in the first quarter of 2019, the country's environment minister said on Tuesday, causing water shortages and forest fires. El Nino is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific. In ...
Forget Kyoto's temples, try the coffee instead
Though kissaten (old-style) coffee shops like have long been a part of Kyoto, the third-wave coffee boom has increased the number and variety of coffee shops in the city.
Social Good Roasters: Balancing coffee and community
Social Good Roasters is a social welfare organization that specifically employees people with disabilities such as Down syndrome and autism and teaches them everything from how to sort unroasted coffee beans to the process of brewing and roasting.
Jailhouse Coffee: Organic roasts 'to have fun with'
Founded in 2015, the playfully branded Jailhouse Coffee is an organic line of beans roasted in Queens, New York and sold throughout the U.S. — as well as Japan.
At Glitch Coffee, a shared roast is a good roast
At Glitch Coffee & Roasters, founder Kiyokazu Suzuki imparts the art of roasting coffee beans to local shops through his share roasting program.
Students and teachers in South Korea will need to find new ways of staying alert through the long school day, after the government said Friday it will ban coffee sales in schools. Selling highly caffeinated drinks to students in schools has already been banned since ...
