ENVIRONMENTAL TROUBLE BREWS.Behind the sweet aroma of Blue Mountain coffee, the stench of pollution is tarnishing the brews' international image as a connoisseur's delight. Cultivated cultivated, n in herbal medicine, used to describe plants that are commercially farmed rather than collected from the wild. on plantations PLANTATIONS. Colonies, (q.v.) dependencies. (q.v.) 1 Bl. Com. 107. In England, this word, as it is used in St. 12, II. c. 18, is never applied to, any of the British dominions in Europe, but only to the colonies in the West Indies and America. 1 Marsh. Ins, B. 1, c. 3, Sec. 2, page 64. that stretch across 4,000 hectares on the steep slopes of the Blue Mountains Blue Mountains, Australia Blue Mountains, region of New South Wales, SE Australia. Located W of Sydney, this elevation is actually a plateau forming part of the Great Dividing Range. near Kingston, the capital, coffee is one of Jamaica's major hard-currency earners, reports Latinamerica Press. But environmentalists and scientists worry that pesticides and erosion from coffee production along the range are damaging ecosystems several kilometers away. Ajai Mansingh of the University of the West Indies The university consists of three major campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, and Cave Hill in Barbados, together with a satellite campus in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in Nassau, Bahamas. , who researches the environmental effects of pesticides used on coffee farms, says aquatic life is affected by chemicals that are absorbed into the soil and washed from the slopes into water systems. |
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