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 ...

BACOLOD CITY — Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has called for a temporary halt to all earth-moving activities at a palm oil plantation in Candoni town. In a letter dated June 5 ...

A Mega Oil Palm Plantation Program was successfully held today at Garjee Sector in Tripura's Gomati district, marking a significant step towards promoting oil palm cultivation under the National ...

A plantation worker loading palm fruits to a truck before weighing and delivering to a local mill. Nearly 4.5 million people in Malaysia and Indonesia are employed in the industry.

JAKARTA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Indonesia said on Friday that it would slap palm oil companies operating within forest areas with fines amounting to a total of 4.8 trillion rupiah ($310.1 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

Banner image: Tractor and trailer with oil palm seedlings on a Wilmar plantation in Cross River state, Nigeria. Image by Rettet van Regenwald via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) FEEDBACK: Use this form ...