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Climate change increases price of Easter eggs    This year's Easter eggs will be much more expensive than last year's. The reason is climate change. Extreme weather patterns have made growing cocoa more challenging. Cocoa beans are used to make chocolate. Around 70 per cent of the world's cocoa beans are grown in West Africa. Recent heatwaves, droughts and heavy rain in Ghana and the Ivory Coast have greatly reduced the amount of cocoa beans grown. Temperatures have been four degrees higher than normal. The Reuters news agency said cocoa prices have more than doubled compared to this time last year. Amber Sawyer, an energy and climate analyst, said farmers in West Africa were, "struggling in the face of both extreme heat and rainfall". Chocolate eggs are given as gifts for the Christian holiday of Easter, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. Traditionally, people dyed and painted chicken eggs. Wikipedia says chocolate eggs first appeared at the court of...

   Watch:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfYQfeLuSrQ Alicia "Tania" Esteve Head  is a Spanish businesswoman who claimed to be a survivor of the attacks  on the World Trade Center  on September 11, 2001, under the name  Tania Head . She joined the World Trade Center Survivors' Network support group , later becoming its president. Her name was regularly mentioned in media reports of the attacks. In 2007, it was revealed Head's story was a  hoax ; she was not in New York City  on September 11, 2001, but in reality was attending classes in her native city, Barcelona. Alicia Esteve Head was born on July 31, 1973, in Barcelona Spain.  Head came from a  prominent  Barcelona family that was involved in a 1992 financial scandal for which her father and two siblings served prison terms.  She attended the University of Barcelona  and worked for Hotel de la Villa Olímpica, a Spanish hotel company.   She later worked in Ba...