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Heated | The Problems With Palm Oil Don’t Start With My Recipes
The focus of the palm oil debate so far has been to make regions on the other side of the globe the first to be implicated for the crimes of an indust
Mongabay | Palm oil from Indonesian grower that burned forest is still being sold
The company also went on to sell its crude palm oil (CPO) to a major refinery in Belawan, North Sumatra province. The refinery is owned by Indonesia
Argus | Indonesia’s palm oil dispute with EU set to continue
This has resulted in [Indonesia]'s biodiesel exports falling to just 2,000t during January-April compared with 337,000t in the year-earlier period Re
JP | Precautions against forest fires
the fire prevention and management system must from the outset include the education and empowerment of the people living around the concession areas
Indonesia maintained lower losses for third year in a row
In positive news, primary forest loss in Indonesia decreased by 5% in 2019 compared to the year before, marking the third year in a row of lower level
SD | Sustainable palm oil? How environmental protection and poverty reduction can be reconciled
Palm oil is often associated with tropical deforestation above all else. However, this is only one side of the story, as agricultural scientists from
PHYS | Hummingbirds show up when tropical trees fall down
Treefalls are a common and necessary occurrence in forests all over the world. As sunshine streams in from above, trees hunkered down in the understor
GW | Palm Oil: the world’s environmental scapegoat
Even when it comes to environmental protection (the sole reason why the EU was purportedly banning palm oil in the first place) the evidence falls sho
S | The Tragic Intersection of the Coronavirus and Ecotourism
On a more global scale, critics of ecotourism have argued that the astronomical carbon footprint of international air travel negates any benefits that