Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los ...

Since 2016, the cacao industry in Puerto Rico has experienced a massive resurgence with production growing by more than 3,400 ...

The chocolate industry is seeing unprecedented times, with effects rippling all the way to grocery store shelves. This is how consumers may be affected in 2026.

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Determined to get some answers, I consulted a few chocolate experts while attending Grenada’s fun-filled Chocolate Festival—an ...

There is a massive problem in West Africa, and the chocolate supply is facing a significant threat as the cacao tree virus is affecting farms and rapidly spreading in the country's regions. As much as ...

DeWayne Shoemaker is a professor and department head of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee. This story originally featured on The Conversation. It’s almost impossible to ...

Making chocolate is a sacred process, particularly for descendants of the ancient Mesoamerica, and for those looking to reconnect with ancestral practices, like Stephanie Villegas of Xochitl Vegan, a ...

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 ...