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VIDEO: Palm oil industry 'tough going'
2015-09-03 01:34:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The boss of one of the world's biggest palm oil traders tells the BBC that conditions are tough but he expects better times ahead.
VIDEO: Can palm oil be made sustainably?
2015-08-04 03:33:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The big plantations used to produce palm oil have devastated wildlife in places like Borneo. Can it be produced sustainably?
Tropical peatland carbon losses from oil palm plantations may be underestimated
2015-07-10 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Draining tropical peatlands for oil palm plantations may result in nearly twice as much carbon loss as official estimates, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment and the Union of Concerned Scientists in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Peatlands -- waterlogged, organic soils -- have developed over thousands of years as carbon storage systems. In Southeast Asia, peat swamp forests cover about 250,000 square kilometers, a land...
Palm oil plantations used to 'reforest' parts of Brazil despite being wildlife deserts
2015-06-30 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: It may not surprise you to hear that monocultures of oil palm (tree species of the Elaeis genus) do not support a great diversity of species in comparison to primary forests. But just how bad is it? A recent study systematically documented bird biodiversity within oil palm plantations, finding they contain fewer species than secondary forest and even cattle pasture. As oil palm grows as a commodity in Brazil and can legally even be used to "reforest" land how can a country that has made big gains...
Palm oil giants to investigate company found razing Papuan rainforest
2015-06-19 01:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Agribusiness giants Cargill and Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) are pledging to investigate a palm oil supplier after an Indonesian environmental group presented evidence of rainforest clearing in New Guinea. On Thursday, Greenomics-Indonesia released a report documenting destruction of forests in South Sorong, a regency in West Papua, Indonesian New Guinea. Greenomics found that PT Varia Mitra Andalan (VMA), a subsidiary of publicly-listed PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk, continued to clear high carbon...
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