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Apr. 28, 2022
Chile’s Ongoing Drought Leads to Water Rationing in Santiago
Six millions residents in the capital are feeling the tangible effects of the 12-year drought. The rest of the country is not faring much better.
Apr. 27, 2022
U.N. Panel: Time Running Out to Prevent Worst Impacts of Climate Change
The latest report from the United Nations panel warned that more needs to be done to accelerate the trend of slowing emissions, especially in the agricultural sector.
Apr. 26, 2022
Ancient Trees Are Key to Healthy Forests, Scientists Say
Ancient trees help keep forests alive by passing on their experience and hardiness to other trees and plants in the forest. They also better sequester carbon dioxide than trees of average age and provide shelter for endangered species.
Apr. 25, 2022 World
Mar. 31, 2022 News Briefs
Some Effects of Climate Change Are Already Irreversible, U.N. Warns
Mar. 25, 2022 News Briefs
Warm Winter and Water Shortages Complicate Harvests for Some Italian Farmers
Mar. 23, 2022 Producer Profiles
How the Climate Makes and Breaks One Award-Winning Producer’s Harvest
Mar. 16, 2022 News Briefs
Med-Gold Project Will Present New Climate Service Tool for Farmers This Month
Mar. 11, 2022
New Regulation in Turkey Permits Olive Tree Removals for Coal Mining
The regulation is meant to boost Turkish energy security. However, the country’s national olive oil association is already appealing the decision.
Mar. 8, 2022
Wildfires Are Becoming More Frequent and Intense Globally, Researchers Find
Olive farmers in the Mediterranean basin are among those at the highest risk of increasing and more intense wildfires.
Mar. 7, 2022
Report: Climate Change Will Dramatically Reduce Tunisian Olive Oil Production
The National Observatory for Agriculture estimated that olive oil production may decrease by up to 70 percent if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate.
Mar. 3, 2022
Climate Change Threatens Steep-Slope Agriculture
The culturally and historically important role of steep-slope agriculture, including traditional olive groves, is threatened by increasingly arid climates and desertification.
Mar. 2, 2022
Spain and Portugal Request European Aid to Fight Ongoing Drought
The European agriculture commissioner responded that both countries must use national strategic plans to address climatic issues.
Feb. 23, 2022
U.S. Provides $1 Billion to Farmers to Fight Climate Change
The USDA is looking to promote the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and the advancement of carbon sequestration techniques in rural and forestry operations.
Feb. 23, 2022
Drought and Heat Cause Concern for Farmers Across Spain
Last January was the driest one in Spain since 1961, according to the national weather agency. Olive farmers worry about production losses as a result.
Feb. 18, 2022
Study: Climate Change Is Making Droughts More Frequent and Severe
Researchers are worried about the increasing phenomenon of co-occurring droughts, which are 10 times more likely now than in the previous century.
Feb. 15, 2022
Yale Researchers Identify Six Target U.S. Audiences for Climate Change Messaging
Americans’ thinking around climate change has shifted toward more urgency.
Feb. 8, 2022
Research on Olive Biodiversity Is Key to Tackling Climate Change
Identifying traits that allow olives to resist extreme weather events, volatile temperature changes and diseases will allow farmers to plant more resilient olive varieties in the future.
Feb. 7, 2022
Farmers Are Facing the Brunt of Portugal’s Worsening Drought
Experts warn that the absence of significant rainfalls in the coming months will degrade water quality and strain irrigation-dependent crops, including some olive groves.
Feb. 7, 2022
A Carbon Credit Market in Italy Provides New Revenue Streams for Olive Growers
The carbon market will help businesses unable to reach net-zero emissions on their own and promote more environmentally-friendly olive growing practices, supporters say.
Jan. 25, 2022
Producers Express Alarm in Latest Olive Oil Times Survey
Producers say they face ever-growing hardships from the effects of a global pandemic, climate change, higher production costs, market instability and a persistent lack of consumer understanding about their products.
Jan. 17, 2022
2021 Was Earth’s Fifth Hottest Year, Scientists Say
The annual average temperature in 2021 exceeded the modern average by 0.3 ºC, scientists at Europe’s Copernicus climate change service found.
Jan. 12, 2022
Study: Shifting to Plant-Based Diets Can Cut Global Emissions and Capture CO2
This new approach to eating in high-income nations would slash more than half of all greenhouse gas emissions.