Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only 10%-20% of cacao flowers are pollinated. carlosgaw/E+ via Getty Images It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without ...

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, it’s worth ...

The productivity of cacao trees decreases with time, forcing farmers to renew their plantations by either cutting down the old trees or establishing a new crop elsewhere. Frequently, new plantations ...

As Valentine's Day approaches, the craving for chocolate intensifies. But chocolate continues to face a significant challenge: Climate change is threatening cacao production, particularly in West ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...

Sustainable chocolate improves transparency and ethical sourcing but largely overlooks cocoa's core climate resilience problem, leaving supply chains more vulnerable.

The concept of cell-cultured, or ‘lab-grown’, chocolate is gaining momentum amid climate-related supply chain problems and a ...