The world's insatiable love of chocolate is facing a challenge as climate change threatens the rainforests where cocoa beans grow, but don't panic yet because scientists may have found a sweet ...

The chocolate industry is having a meltdown. Cocoa prices have doubled since the start of the year, as crops in West Africa — which produces 80% of the world’s cocoa — have been hit by droughts made ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Chocolate makers are trying to get ahead of climate change. That involves food scientists researching new ways to grow cocoa beans. The company California Cultured is growing ...

A new discovery at Easter Island could rewrite history as we know it How a backroad discovery led to the arrest of Melodee ...