Olives need to grow to full size before harvesting. An olive tree is more than a food plant. The silvery-gray leaves shimmer in the breeze, making this Mediterranean crop beautiful too. If you’re not ...

Across parts of southern Europe and the Mediterranean, olive trees are taking on new meaning. Once seen simply as crops, they’re now viewed as symbols of survival. These ancient trees are some of the ...

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Umm Shukry inspects her olive trees one by one, just as she did every year for a decade. But this olive harvest season is different. Nearly all her trees are damaged; their branches bare and brittle.

FORT LAUDERDALE — The famous black olive trees that line Las Olas look just fine to the untrained eye. But are they? The notion of doing away with the tree-lined median to make way for a ...