Italy produces a significant portion of the world's olive oil, and these two regions do the bulk of the heavy lifting, producing more than any other areas.

In a greenhouse in Pisa, young olive trees have been quietly revealing one of the most intimate conversations in biology: the ...

Scientists in Sardinia are hoping a thousand-year-old olive tree nearly destroyed by recent fires can be saved, mobilising volunteers to stand guard around the remains of the ancient tree. "The ...

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 ...

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, ...

Trepuzzi, Italy - Farmers in the southern Italian regions of Puglia tried to stop local officials from destroying olive tress infected with a deadly bacterial disease. More than a million olive trees, ...