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Chocolate tree and sweet figs!

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The Conversation

Cocoa farmers cut down trees for short‑term gain, but keeping them is important – here’s why

The price of most chocolate bars has gone up worldwide in the past year, after cocoa bean prices rose dramatically in 2024. As cocoa prices shot up, many farmers in tropical cocoa-producing countries ...
The Guardian

The Magic Faraway Tree review – spruced up Blyton with Foy and Garfield proves fruitful

Paddington 2 co-creator Simon Farnaby branches out with adaptation of children’s classic boasting lively performances and some sharp gags The estimable Simon Farnaby got hall-of-famer status for ...
Phys.org

Scientists just mapped the family tree of all 11,000 bird species—and you can explore it

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Tree of Life’ Review: The Ancestor at the Root of It All

Perhaps the most remarkable feature of all species, living and extinct, is their extraordinary interconnectivity. Each species on Earth can trace its roots back to the same cluster of ancestral ...
IFLScience

Real Or Fake Christmas Trees: Which Is Better For The Environment?

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...
People

Every Year She Builds a Life-Sized Christmas Tree of Books. Why She Had to Redo This Year's 600-Book Tree (Exclusive)

Katie Fulton 600-book Christmas tree went viral, amassing more than 27 million views on TikTok Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...
Snopes.com

Was Dora the Explorer chased by ICE balloons during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? Not so fast

Following the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Nov. 27, 2025, posts containing images that appeared to depict balloons of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents chasing a ...
Nature

Sweet like chocolate: researching in the shade of a cacao tree

“The seven-year-old cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) that I’m inspecting in this photo is part of the Model Cocoa Orchard established by the University of the West Indies’ Cocoa Research Centre (CRC), ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Trees, books and small joys that endure: Finding light in dark times

It’s hard to disagree with wise old Ralph W. Emerson who said, “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world,” since these are exceptionally fearful times. The mainstream media’s ...
Staten Island Advance

N.Y. offers free ‘Explorer Club Activity Book’ to engage kids in the outdoors

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Children are invited to unplug and explore the outdoors with the new “Explorer Club Activity Book.” The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation ...