The Ivory Coast could lose one-third of its cacao tree crop this year due to a virus, according to New Scientist magazine.
Here’s why you should care: Chocolate comes from the cacao tree.
Seventy-percent of the world’s chocolate comes from west Africa.
Scientists are working to find genes in the trees which are resistant to disease and find a way to use those to create disease-resistant trees.
Those scientists better be working feverishly.
