It could eventually cut down on the production of traditional chocolate, which degrades soil and requires much fertilizer and ...

Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) There are technological and biological wonders inside the ...

Cocoa is a key issue in the upcoming Côte d’Ivoire elections. As the world's largest cocoa producer, its politics could have ...

Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing the spread of the cacao tree. A new study published in Scientific Reports found that the cacao tree, which grows cocoa beans, ...

Wayne Gerard Trotman Over the past several years I have written here about the impact of climate change on many of our ...

A family cacao farm here has evolved into Cocoa Kraftique, a new tablea producer led by entrepreneur Lorraine Rebato, who of ...

Chocolate is one of the worst foods you can buy, in terms of the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. But some people are trying to change that. The long black pruning poles looked cumbersome. But the ...

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 ...