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Researchers have used satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand that will help policymakers...
Palm-oil biodiesel could reduce greenhouse gas emissions despite controversy about its sustainability, says new research. Vegetable oil biofuels are increasingly being used as an alternative to fossil fuels despite the growing controversy regarding their...
An alliance of conservationists and researchers is converting oil palm plantations into near-natural rainforests on Borneo. The conversion will restore the high biodiversity of the tropical rainforests on Borneo in Malaysia by establishing a...
A new study from the University of Cambridge has found that consumer goods companies and retailers need to be more upfront about where the palm oil in their products comes from. The University of...
Environmental NGOs across Europe have launched a new initiative urging the European Commission to phase out palm oil in biodiesel by 1 February 2019. Sixty-nine per cent of Europeans are in favour of this....
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, an industry watchdog trying to shift companies towards certified sustainable palm oil, has suspended Swiss food group Nestlé after it failed to deliver a report explaining how it...
Palm oil is commonly used in our society but it has a major impact on the environment. According to a new study, the carbon cost when one hectare of forest is cleared to make...
Palm oil production has a huge effect on the environment, with large areas of ecosystems cleared to make way for plantations. But there are ways to ease the environmental impact, says a new study....
Newsweek has named L’Oréal the most sustainable company in the world in its 2017 Global 500 Green Rankings. The cosmetics company moved up 27 spots in just one year. French cosmetics giant L’Oréal has...
In the past decades, large areas of forest in Sumatra, Indonesia have been replaced by cash crops like oil palm and rubber plantations. New research, published in the European Geosciences Union journal Biogeosciences, shows...
Norway’s parliament has pledged that the government’s public procurement policy will not contribute to deforestation of rainforests worldwide, making it the first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation. Although a number...
The first rains in Indonesia are slowly containing the forest fires that have blanketed Indonesia and its neighbours in thick smoke since early September. As the smoke lifts, the devastating consequences are only now...
The “Big 10” food and beverage companies emit so much greenhouse gas that, if they were a single country, they would be the 25th most polluting in the world. Kellogg and General Mills are...
