By Malavika Vyawahare Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where ...

The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

The ingredients for chocolate - cocoa powder and cocoa butter - are ... grown for food more than 5,000 years ago in the Amazon rainforest. Chemical residues found on ancient pottery suggest ...