Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate prices.

Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

The fruit of the cocoa tree is a pod full of sweet pulp enfolding a cluster of about 20 to 40 cocoa seeds. Cocoa takes about two and a half years to mature and gives two harvests in a year.