The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick -- is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many ...

Using the Planet Explorer plugin in QGIS, we mapped deforestation in the project area from 2019 to 2023. We chose 2019 because if any oil palm plantation in Malaysia was involved in clearing natural ...

JAKARTA — Deforestation associated with oil palm cultivation has declined in recent years in Indonesia, but in a biodiversity haven at the northern tip of Sumatra, the forest is being cleared at ...