Grist: Salted almonds are essentially God`s gift to snack food, salads, and ice cream. But when it comes to growing almonds, salt can really screw things up. Unfortunately for California`s almond orchards, salty groundwater has become a huge problem and it`s killing trees across the state. That`s right: We`re talking about almonds and California again, folks, but bear with us.
Valley Public Radio has the story:
The trees just dont look healthy," [Paul Parreira of Rpac Almonds] says. "Everybody is...