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Coffee waste transformed a degraded forest in just two years
Original: Researchers dumped coffee waste into a forest and couldn’t believe what it looked like 2 years later https:// fed.brid.g
Researchers spread coffee pulp, a leftover from coffee production, over a patch of degraded tropical forest land, and returned two years later to find dramatically greener, faster-growing vegetation compared with untreated land nearby. The experiment suggests coffee waste could be a cheap, effective way to restore forests and rebuild soil, and environmental writers are highlighting it as a hopeful, low-tech success story.
Why now: An unusual, optimistic environmental restoration result is being shared widely as a rare good news story.
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Evidence
- Researchers dumped coffee waste into a forest and couldn’t believe what it looked like 2 years later https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upwo rthy.com/coffee-waste-dumped-in-forest-ex1/ · upworthy.com@web.brid.gy · 3
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