A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the ...

Analysis of independent satellite data shows a decrease in the efficiency of palm oil plantations in Malaysia after they ...

You can get a kilo of palm oil for just $2. But its usage has become unsurprisingly controversial, as huge areas of rainforest have been cut down or burned to make way for palm plantations.

Palm oil’s big problem has always been the jungle ... Clearing land for plantations involves burning rainforest—in the process, endangering rare species and, on peatland, releasing 100 times ...

Palm oil is so widely used that it's in increasing demand across the world. This means increased production which unfortunately has led to deforestation. The rainforest is rich in different ...

The companies that sell palm oil have a choice, they can produce it on existing plantations OR they can cut down more rainforest. I have a choice too…. I can look for palm oil that is grown ...

Beyond the obvious deforestation that results from clearing lowland rainforest for plantations (86 percent of deforestation in Malaysia from 1995-2000 was for oil palm plantations), there are ...

EXCLUSIVE: Analysis by Rainforest Action Network alleges connection between MUFG and oil palm group that has been 'repeatedly ...

Funding for palm oil plantation expansion provided by MUFG's Indonesian subsidiary led to haze pollution from converted ...

the Awyu tribe await a Supreme Court verdict that will determine whether thousands of hectares of rainforest will be cleared for a vast palm oil concession to be planted atop the graves of their ...

It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...