Blending coffee and music comes naturally to Carnatic musician and coffee roaster Akshay Vaidyanathan. In 2019, he founded Kapikottai, a coffee brand he describes as a fun entrepreneurial experiment.

As weather patterns change, coffee cultivation has become more uncertain. With the market for fine coffee maturing, both ...

Coffee is uniquely vulnerable to climate change. It grows in tropical regions, where temperatures and rainfall are becoming increasingly erratic; it is grown by small farms, which do not have the ...

Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she’s raised from a seedling, searching anxiously for its first fruit buds since she planted it three years ago. When she ...

Excelsa coffee cherries are harvested at a farm near Nzara, South Sudan on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Inganga The farmer had never grown coffee in her village in western South Sudan, ...

There's a coffee crisis due to climate change. It's ravaging harvests. A coffee variety native to Africa and grown in Asia may be a saviour Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of ...