{"id":26752,"date":"2024-04-24T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=26752"},"modified":"2024-04-24T07:03:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:03:59","slug":"plant-apocalypse-as-new-diseases-destroy-trees-and-crops-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/04\/24\/plant-apocalypse-as-new-diseases-destroy-trees-and-crops-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying trees and crops in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">T<\/span>the plants slowly suffocate, wither and dry up. They die en masse, the leaves drop and the bark turns gray, creating a sea of monochrome. Since scientists first discovered\u00a0<em class=\"dcr-1myha1i\">Xylella fastidiosa<\/em> in 2013 in Puglia, Italy, killing a third of the region&#039;s 60 million olive trees \u2013 which once produced nearly half of Italy&#039;s olive oil \u2013 many of which were centuries old. Farms stopped producing, olive mills went bankrupt and tourists avoided the area. Without a known cure, the bacterium has already caused damage worth approximately 1 billion euros. (<em>from\u00a0<span class=\"dcr-1xrt66o\">Agostino Petroni and Regina Winter Poulsen in Puglia, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/apr\/24\/plant-apocalypse-how-deadly-imported-diseases-are-destroying-eu-trees-and-crops-aoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The branches slowly suffocate, wither and dry out. They die en masse, the leaves fall off and the bark turns gray, creating a sea of monochrome. Since scientists first discovered Xylella fastidiosa in 2013 in Puglia, Italy, it has killed a third of the region\u2019s 60 million olive trees \u2013 which once produced nearly half of Italy\u2019s olive oil \u2013 many of which were centuries old. Farms [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}