When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee.

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 ...

The cacao tree, Theobroma cacao is a tree in the Malvaceae family that is native to the American tropics. Cacao was originally cultivated more than 5,000 years ago in what is presently south east ...

Cacao fruit is what chocolate is made from. Learn the history of cacao, how chocolate is made, and the many ways we enjoy ...

Researchers used bright X-rays to unveil how cacao trees protect themselves from toxic metal cadmium.

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he wants to build a chocolate factory. One problem: Cacao trees don't naturally grow in Los Angeles.

They found that climate change made the temperature too hot to grow cacao trees - the plant that makes cocoa beans - for three weeks a year.

From California to Israel, companies are aiming to grow cocoa beyond the tropics in a bid to buffer chocolate's key ingredient from climate change.

Cacao farmers in the Philippines are using innovative solutions to fight climate change - an increasing threat to crops and livelihoods. We visit the country's chocolate capital to see if the industry ...

Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways to grow cocoa or develop ...

"The cacao tree is not only an income-generating plant; it is also a significant contributor to afforestation," Mugambi explains. "Earning from it while contributing to climate change action is ...