It’s time to panic. Olives are in big trouble

Grist
By Amelia UrryMay 13, 2015, 3:04 pm26 pts
It’s a hard time to be an olive. After a rash of terrible weather in 2014 and an actual plague of fruit flies, the latest blight to hit the iconic, enigmatic fruit is an actual blight. From the New York Times: “It is devastating,” said Enzo Manni, the director of ACLI-Racale, an olive cooperative in the…

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