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Are Bananas Going Extinct?
- Quartz, Tuesday, December 1, 2015 9:06 AM
Maybe. The banana is the world's most popular fruit, and it is in dire trouble. The fungus that has been killing the fruit for decades in Asia has, since 2013, gone global, reaching the Middle East, Africa, and Australia, per a study in the journal PLOS Pathogens. The fungus can’t be killed, so when it reaches Latin America, where three fifths of the supply originates, the fruit could all but disappear.
