The environmental impacts of palm oil include deforestation, climate change, habitat destruction and species loss. Steps you can take to avoid palm oil.Read More
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Deforestation in Indonesia: Turning Rainforest into Palm Oil
Burning Indonesia’s Rainforest An investigative report reveals that Korindo, a corporation heavily involved in natural resource extraction in Southeast Asia, is targeting the largest intact Rainforest in Papua the Indonesian provinces of Papua and North Maluku for destruction to make way for oil palm plantations. Despite the devastating haze crisis of 2015, the common tool for […]Read More
EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: How is it that some food purveyors are contributing to the destruction of tropical rainforests by ditching unhealthy “trans fats?” — Billy S., Salem, OR Most public health advocates applaud efforts […]Read More
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Palm Oil Plantations And Tropical Rainforests
The inclusion of rainforests in the next climate protocol fails to protect the forests from the expansion of palm oil plantations. A study issued at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology argues that palm oil plantations are a massive danger because they already are an important driving force behind deforestation in Southeast Asia. The proportion of […]Read More
Earthtalk is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that palm oil, common in snack foods and health & beauty products, is destroying rainforests? If so, what can consumers do about it? — Emma Miniscalco, via e-mail RSPO Greenpeace Image Credit: […]Read More
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The Weekly Mulch from the Media Consortium: Big Oil Cash
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger (reposted with permission) The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is worse than anyone thought, and the crisis will likely go on for months. British Petroleum (BP) is tripping over itself to say it’ll cover the costs of the clean-up, yet before the spill, the company […]Read More
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Indonesian Inferno Releasing More CO2 than the U.S. Economy
In just three weeks, a raging inferno in Indonesia has released more CO2 than Germany does in a year, and more than that of the entire U.S. economy. Clearing forest and altering landscapes and waterways underlain by carbon-rich peat deposits for palm oil agriculture is to blame.Read More
