Climate change is threatening cacao crops, researchers say
Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...
Scientists warn of climate threat to chocolate
Farmers in the region have struggled with heat, disease and unusual rainfall in recent years. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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The plants of Peru
In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...
Chocolate the next climate casualty, scientists warn
Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the West African countries that underpin the world's chocolate supply, hitting harvests and likely further stoking record prices, ...
Why the price of your favorite chocolate will continue to rise
Greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, increase global temperatures. Rising temperatures, in turn, cause moisture to evaporate at a faster rate. This ...