Indonesia is pushing to ban new palm oil operations after last year's haze-belching forest fires were partly blamed on the industry's expansion, but producers are warning the move could hit the ...

Forest conservation areas in oil palm plantations play a vital role in storing carbon and boosting rainforest biodiversity, a new study on palm oil agriculture in Borneo has revealed. The study, led ...

An interview with Craig Hanson and Moray McLeish of the World Resources Institute. Jeremy conducted the interview; Rhett wrote the introduction, laid out the page, and developed the images. Oil palm ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The palm oil industry was responsible for at least 39% of forest loss on the biodiversity-rich island of Borneo between 2000 and 2018, data from a research firm based in ...

Malaysian state of Perak is destroying protected forests for lucrative wood and palm oil. In July Bikam Permanent Forest Reserve in Malaysia’s Perak state was degazetted, allowing the forest to be ...

Farmers in Liberia are concerned that expanding oil palm plantation will swallow up their forest lands. Outside the southern Liberian town of Greenville, you can travel down a network of dirt roads ...