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Australia Pistachio Disaster Hints at Agricultural Breakdown
• Brandon Keim via WIRED.comAustralia’s pistachio farmers expected a bumper crop this year. Instead they had a harvest of horrors, with nuts blackened by a fungus that had never before caused an outbreak in pistachios.