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Olive oil price skyrockets as Spanish drought bites

"This is turning out to be another bad year, to put it mildly," olive farmer Francisco José García de Zúñiga says. "We've had two years of drought in a row, 2022 and 2023, and two years of bad harvests."

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Spain’s drought shows climate change is here

The combination of an unprecedented lack of rainfall and record-high temperatures gripping southwestern Europe for the second straight year had been projected by scientists – for 2043. The heat they warned about is already here.
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