Five-year study shows islands increase ecosystem health without lowering crop yield, and a house built from concrete and nappies. Global demand for palm oil has resulted in huge expansion of the palm ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...

Islands of trees in oil palm plantations can significantly increase biodiversity within five years without reducing productivity. This has been shown by an experiment, which has been running for over ...

Producing palm oil sustainably requires nations to learn from each other’s best practices. Erin Pischke explores impacts of the cash crop in her guest blog. Have you eaten a candy bar recently? Or ...

Having successfully improved its environmental compliance under the international spotlight, the Indonesian palm oil industry ...

Across swathes of Southeast Asia, maturing palm oil trees, some as tall as a 12-storey building, are turning into a multi-billion dollar headache for local farmers, regional governments and consumers ...

In case you don't know, palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet Earth, in Nigeria especially the market size is huge and growing. This means business opportunities for ...

Elegance is a quality that may not be essential to beauty, and yet when elegance is present, beauty is definitely there, too. It is thus appropriate, I suppose, that Hollywood — where elegance is ...

Large-scale monoculture plantations have devastated tropical forests worldwide, but a recent study finds that creating islands of native trees can be a way to restore biodiversity on degraded lands.