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Fear of Ruin as Disease Takes Hold of Italys Olive Trees
2015-05-11 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Across the stony heel of Italy, a peninsula ringed by the blue-green waters of the Mediterranean, olive trees have existed for centuries, shaping the landscape and producing some of the nations finest olive oils. Except now many of the trees are dying. Sprinkled among the healthy trees are clusters of sick ones, denuded of leaves and standing like skeletons, their desiccated branches bereft of olives. The trees are succumbing to a bacterial outbreak that is sweeping across one of Italys most...
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