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Root Capital founder Willy Foote visits with a coffee client, Jose Dominguez, in Marcala, Honduras, to survey the impact of la roya on coffee farms.

Coffee shops, farmers and a banker team up to save Latin American coffee

Business, Economics and Jobs

Leaf rust is eating away at coffee trees in Central and South America. Hundreds of thousands of people are out of work because of it. Now, an unlikely coalition of American coffee chains, coffee shops and bankers are coming to the rescue.

Anniversary prompts memories of German teen who landed private plan in Red Square

Global Politics
Rust in Red Square

Remembering Mathias Rust’s Flight to Red Square

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Emerging Science Note/Nanorust

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A Victory Against a Major Wheat Blight

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Seeds of Resistance

Author Susan Dworkin talks about her book, “The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist’s Struggle to Preserve the World’s Harvest,” and how scientists are working to collect seeds and find strains of wheat resistant to the powerful wheat disease called Ug

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Emerging Science Note/Nanorust

Tiny magnetic particles of rust may clean dirty drinking water in developing countries.

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Hungry Bears

Climate change – in the form of warmer, wetter weather – is encouraging European blister rust to infect pine nut trees in Yellowstone. As Jyl Hoyt reports, this could be disastrous for grizzly bears, who rely on pine nuts for food.

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