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On a misty March day in Darjeeling, Satish Mitruka walks through the dried-up leaves of his estate’s tea bushes, explaining how changing weather patterns are affecting his business. “Darjeeling is a dying industry,” said Mitruka, a third-generation tea harvester in this area of West Bengal in India’s northeast, adding that …

It’s the latest beverage du jour — and for people needing their morning pick-me-up, matcha tea increasingly beats espresso as their caffeine fix of choice. “I worked on the bar a few weeks ago and I think past a certain point, you don’t just steam milk, you don’t pull shots. Everything you do is …

A family in Ontario is calling for national regulations around temperatures for hot beverages after they say their daughter suffered burns from a spilled hot tea at a McDonald’s restaurant in Cobourg, Ont. Samantha Wynne says on June 8 after being served a meal and walking to her table, an …