Fionn Pooler

Tariffs, C market spikes, and new tools to evaluate coffee upend the industry: here are the biggest stories from 2025 in coffee.

From the ever-changing threat of tariffs to big companies continuing to swallow small ones, 2025 was anything but predictable. Here's (mostly) everything that happened this year.

Two new studies have found that spent coffee grounds can remove toxic heavy metals from polluted water.

High prices can’t stop us from drinking coffee, but it can change how. Plus, coffee waste can help purify polluted water, and Nestlé might sell Blue Bottle to Luckin.

Instead of cutting back on caffeine, people are shifting their habits by choosing budget-friendly chains, making coffee at home, or buying cheaper beans.

In 2017, multinational conglomerate Nestlé bought the specialty chain Blue Bottle Coffee. Seven years later, workers unionized—but now Nestlé is considering selling the brand. What does that mean for its union?

One coffee shop in a small town near San Francisco is thriving—with a Starbucks just 75 feet down the street and another two blocks away.

Is a Starbucks down the street a death knell? Not always. Plus, multinational roasters are buying more sustainable coffee than ever before—here's the scoop for the week of Dec. 15.

A new report found that 11 of the biggest coffee roasters are buying more sustainable coffee than ever. But who defines what sustainable means?

Starbucks will pay more than $35 million to thousands of its workers in New York City in a local labor law settlement.