Federico Manni first noticed something was wrong with his family's olive trees about six years ago. It was summer, the cicadas were singing, and Manni and his father, Enzo, were weaving through their ...

A recent study published in the Nutrients Journal investigated the significant effects of desert olive tree pearls (DOTPs) on the cognitive function of Japanese older adults by alleviating complex ...

A vicious bacterium that is devastating southern Italy’s valuable olive groves is still spreading years after it was identified, because of opposition to measures meant to contain the pathogen. After ...

Do you want your garden to feel like a Mediterranean haven all summer long? Then it's time to brush up on your pruning skills and keep your olive trees fruitful and healthy this season. While you may ...

There’s no strategic olive oil reserves to tap into here. A slew of ongoing issues have been drizzling trouble over the olive oil industry for the better half of the past decade, according to experts ...

It’s hard to hate trees. But many people would rather chop down the messy black olive than enjoy the marvelous shade it provides. The black olive is blamed for the rust-colored stains it leaves ...

While the sentinel trees of Northern Lebanon may not be as old as some traditions hold, one tree might be more than 1,000 years old. By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei has previously reported on the ...

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