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Megafire smoke may dampen California’s nut harvests

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California produces 80 percent of the world’s almonds.

Some almond orchards saw up to a 60 percent decrease in nut harvests in the year following a megafire.

The disruption limited how much energy orchard trees stored over the winter , researchers report in Nature Plants.

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