Aside from the odd piece of See's Candy, molecular biologist Raven Hanna didn't grow up a chocoholic. On a trip to Belize more than a decade ago, she encountered cacao trees and learned how the Maya ...

Cocoa trees grow about 20 degrees north and south of the equator in regions with warm weather and abundant rain, including West Africa and South America. Climate change is expected to dry out the ...

Gardeners who love chocolate may want to grow cacao and make their own chocolate. Cacao trees grow well here in Hawaii and with room for a small tree where it can have a shady overstory ...

Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California climate. Blackley and partner Asher Sefami approach the ...

less-productive trees and plant new ones to increase production, especially as farms are ravaged by diseases. Like other ...

Climate change, pests, and unsustainable practices threaten global cocoa production, endangering chocolate’s future and ...

Scientists have described three new species of plants closely related to the cacao tree, highlighting the importance of dried herbarium collections in uncovering hidden biodiversity. The newly ...

Companies Are Crafting New Ways to Grow Cocoa, and Chocolate Alternatives, to Keep up With Demand WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly ...

Chocolate callets are displayed at the California Cultured office in West Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Climate change is stressing ...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ...