commons.wikimedia.org The forest in your chocolate Global demand for chocolate, not least during the holiday season, has devoured tropical forests where cocoa trees grow.
Impacts www.flickr.com Cocoa farmers fear climate change lowering crop production For the cocoa tree to fruit well, rains need to come at the right times in the growing cycle. Coming at the wrong times risks crop disease.
Causes www.washingtonpost.com Mars Inc. vowed to stop deforestation in West Africa. It failed A decade after Mars and other chocolate makers vowed to stop rampant deforestation, the problem has gotten worse.
As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley
