by Imtiaz Tyab
27 Nov 2017

video report at: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/climate-change-threatens-olive-trees-mediterranean-171127124901517.html

Environmental groups have warned that the olive oil industry across the Mediterranean, worth billions of dollars, is under threat due to climate change.

From Italy to Tunisia, and Lebanon to Greece, increasingly hot summers and unpredictable winters have seen yields decline by as much as 20 percent.

Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports from Arabsalim in southern Lebanon.