In 2010, researchers at the University of California, Davis Campus (UC Davis), reported that 69% of imported olive oil labeled “Extra Virgin” did not meet the taste and smell test, citing oxidation, ...

Italian farmers are facing ruin as a plague of “olive tree leprosy” devastates orchards across southern Europe. The Xylella bacteria has hit particularly hard in the country’s Puglia region along its ...

This 2017 photo shows an olive tree infected with Xylella fastidiosa that has been cut back to its trunk and then grafted with a variety of olive resistant to the plant disease. (Photo by CAIN BURDEAU ...

The remains of an olive tree near Trepuzzi burnt to the ground in one of numerous wild fires ravaging Salento. Arsonists are believed to be behind many of the fires striking Xylella-infected trees in ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing and reevaluating existing archaeological evidence, ...

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To make sense of the infodemic that exploded in the wake of Covid-19, you don’t need to go all the way back to the cover-ups and misconceptions surrounding the disastrous 1918 Spanish flu – just look ...