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Wild coffee species threatened by climate change and deforestation

The extinction of wild species could jeopardize the viability of commercial coffee varieties.
  1. Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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Most of the world’s wild coffee species have a high chance of going extinct in the next several decades due to more frequent and lengthy droughts, loss of forests and the spread of deadly pests, according to a study1 published on 16 January in Science Advances.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00150-9

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