Among the target trees predicted to thrive as temperatures rise is Eugenia coyolensis. Found only in Honduras, this critically endangered tree prefers warmer and more arid conditions, so it is ...

Ancient peoples of Latin America saved avocados from extinction by cultivating them after megafauna went extinct, researchers ...

A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with ...

A painstaking study of an archaeology site in western Honduras showed just how far back the avocado has been farmed.

Carbon dating and analysis of a rock shelter in Honduras shows humans were eating avocados as long as 11,000 years ago, and began actively farming their trees as early as 7,500 years ago.