The insects' trash is one farmer's treasure.

A significant amount of the single-use plastics that we use ends up in our oceans. As people increasingly ditch these plastics, seaweed—also known as macroalgae—and microalgae could be the solutions to the world's plastic food packaging problem. These are being used to develop everyday items, from edible water bottles to coffee cups to biofuels.

In Venezuela, the red siskin (Spinus cucullatus), a vibrantly colored red-and-black finch, is inextricably linked with the country’s identity. It is present in poems, paintings, names of streets and sports teams and even graces the back of the 100,000 Bolivar bill, but it is rare in its natural habitat. To help reverse this, the Smithsonian and the Piedra de Cachimbo coffee farmers in northern Venezuela stepped in.

Adding an egg is a savvy way to clarify suboptimal brews.

In the era of pods, the iconic item has become an endangered species.

If a future of relentless fires, droughts, superstorms and rising sea levels makes you feel like you need a strong caffeinated beverage, there is some bad news: climate change is coming for the world’s coffee beans. Greg Meenahan, the partnership director at the non-profit institute World Coffee Research, puts it this way: “Demand for coffee is expected to double by the year 2050 and, if nothing is done, more than half of the world’s suitable coffee land will be pushed into unsuitability due to climate change. Without research and development, the coffee sector will need up to 180m more bags of coffee in 2050 than we are likely to have.”

For all those that rely on that cup of coffee to get you going in the morning, here’s another eye-opener: A majority of wild coffee might be going extinct. That info is courtesy of a new study finding roughly 60 percent of wild coffee species are at risk of going extinct. We don’t drink these wild, unsavory strains often, but they could help our beloved arabica and robusta beans adapt to climate change, resist pests and ward off diseases.

By creating a mobile app and robots that prepare and serve orders, Bbox provides cheaper, more efficient coffee, and plans to expand its technology to more restaurant automation.

It seems the customer is no longer always right.

The need to take care of yourself vs your responsibility to others.

How do you like to drink your coffee? Is coffee an absolute must for you to get your day started? Are you one of those who likes a strong black coffee?

Two Scottish entrepreneurs are aiming to go global with their hope to replace palm oil using coffee waste. Scott Kennedy and Fergus Moore said they came up with a unique way to extract oil from used coffee grounds which had a wide range of uses. Palm oil is found in many household products, but environmentalists say demand for it is devastating rainforests in Asia.

It's hard to imagine life before espresso, but believe it or not, there was once a tired, latte-less time. The first basic prototype for an espresso machine was invented in Turin, Italy in the 1880s, though it looked more like a hot-water heater than the blinged-out coffee hotrods we see in cafés today, and for good reason—that's basically all it was, a steam boiler designed to heat water in a closed chamber, which would also build up a reserve of pressure that a waiter or bartender could release over a bed of finely ground coffee. Those early machines, including the 1905 patent by Luigi Bezzera that modernized and streamlined the design and added more functionality for the human making the coffee (they were not known as baristas until much later), are interesting enough on their own—and we'll briefly discuss how they work in a moment—but the really interesting thing about the history of espresso comes from tracing the story of coffee drinking all the way from Ethiopia and piecing together how in the world it made its way to Italy. Ethiopian Origins: The Coffee Ceremony The beverage we know as coffee has a somewhat mysterious origin, but historians know that first the leaves and the coffee fruit were consumed in and around the area now known as Ethiopia, possibly for hundreds of years, before anybody thought to clean and roast the seeds, pulverize them, and mix them with hot water. At some point in the 15th century, spice traders from the Arabian Peninsula, including the area now recognized as Yemen, encountered coffee plants while traveling through Ethiopia in search of trade, spices, and slaves. These traders were found inspiration for creating the hot, bittersweet, and caffeinated elixir we know as coffee most likely in mystical Islamic beliefs about alchemy, the principle of transforming something worthless into something valuable, as a sign of God's love for humankind. Well, certainly if anything is a sign that God loves us, it's coffee. Who'd have thunk that these little grass

Our morning doesn’t really start until we’ve had our coffee. We’re constantly on the lookout for the best and brightest new ways to make and drink a cup of joe, from the disposable French press to a text-enabled espresso machine. Apparently caffeine cravings fuel creativity, because we’ve come across so many cool coffee gadgets lately.

Coffee isn’t just warm and energizing, it may also be extremely good for you.

You down a cup of coffee or tea every morning, but have you ever thought about applying caffeine directly to your face?

Even though you have a cup every day, you may still be surprised to learn how it's affecting you (and your mood and your sleep…).

From hot and spicy cranberry cider to classic hot cocoa, these hot drink alternatives will help break your coffee monotony.

Many coffee drinkers roll out of bed and get their daily dose of java as soon as possible. Because of the way coffee affects our bodies, though, there may be more ideal times to drink it.

Enjoy your coffee!

The $47.30 Quadriginoctuple Frapp

Starbucks was ordered to pay nearly $2.8 billion for backing out of a partnership with Kraft Foods to distribute packaged coffee to grocery stores.

Most people don’t know this, but Starbucks has a secret menu created by dedicated baristas and enthusiastic customers. It’s not listed anywhere, and most of the drinks are region specific. But if you know the recipe–you can ask for them anywhere!

If you go back to the 1970s, people with a serious coffee habit often had an accompanying habit: smoking. And that's why early studies gave coffee a bad rap. Clearly, smoking was harmful. And it was hard for researchers to disentangle the two habits. "So it made coffee look bad in terms of health outcomes," Harvard researcher Meir Stampfer explained to me.

Ever wonder what the best time is to drink your coffee? You probably know it is not a good idea to drink part of your daily dose of caffeine in the afternoon. Especially for those who have problems sleeping. But, do you ever drink your coffee and feel like it just didn’t work?

Why you should treat caffeine the way you treat painkillers or antibiotics

The productivity of Starbucks staff has been surging over the last few years. According to a presentation it made to investors earlier this week, a key number by which the Seattle coffee giant measures productivity—”transactions per labor hour”—is set to end the current fiscal year at 11.7.

Mid Sweden University found that people exposed to blue light performed better at tests when they were distracted than those who had caffeine.

After all the Turkey Day indulging today and shopping extravaganza tomorrow, you're gonna need a little something-something to get you through to next week. Enter: The Coffee Cocktail.

People are increasingly aware of the side-effects of caffeine - but do they know the volume of the drug they're drinking in their favourite beverages?

Watch Zizek explain why Starbucks is the high point of our consumerism.

Ground coffee beans bring unexpected depth to this classic dessert, as well as distributing flecks throughout the custard. The crunchy caramel topping, achieved with raw sugar, matches the bold cof...

"However, this task—the task of touching you gently, caressing you, if you will—is too big a step. I am an amateur. I am nervous. I don’t know you properly. My eyes are not well trained. I will blink too much. I know I will freak out and spill the coffee on you and you will hate me. This is my first coffee. I need to start small."...

A French Riviera cafe has created a stir on social media by rewarding its customers for good manners. At the Petite Syrah in Nice on the Cote d'Azur a cup of coffee becomes cheaper by adding a simple "Hello" and "please" when ordering. A blackboard outside the cafe advertises "Un cafe" for seven euros (£5.90; $9.6) - but "Bonjour, un cafe, s'il vous plait" costs just 1.40 euros.

Coffee may seem harmless, but its historical rap sheet is a mile long.