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This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Slate. When Henri Kunz was growing up in West Germany in the 1980s, he used to drink an instant coffee substitute called Caro, a blend of barley, ...

Experts say climate change will make it much harder to grow coffee. With that in mind, several companies are now marketing coffee-like drinks out of everything from date seeds to leftover barley from ...

Coffee is never just coffee. Your latte, espresso or chai latte might be giving away more about you than you realise. This is not one of those fake, lab-grown coffee swaps. Date seed coffee is the ...