Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (encore)
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The Xylala Plague in Italy
A disease called Xylala fastidiosa has decimated entire regions of southern Italy's olive trees. Rodrigo Almeida, a professor of environmental science at the University of California Berkeley says millions of Italian olive trees have died. The bacteria is transmitted from tree to tree by insects while they're feeding on the water and nutrients that circulate around in the tree. If a mature olive tree gets infected it can go from healthy to dead in a couple of years.
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