Catch up on some trending news affiliated and related to coffee. This past week is packed with environmental studies, ISIS and gentrification.

 

• New research links flavors of coffee and chocolate to different yeast that travels with produce and modifies itself in its journey across the world. [ScienceMag]

 

• Gentrification hits Mott Haven, a neighborhood in South Bronx, with a new Bespoke Coffee shop, a small NYC-based coffee chain. [Curbed]

 

• Need a good place to study or work, with WiFi and good coffee? NYU’s independent student newspaper put together a compilation of coffee shops that are fit for midterms. [WashingtonSquareNews]

 

• Starbucks shuts down all shops in Belgium after terrorist attack, where an explosion took place in front of the cafe within Brussels Airport [NYPost]