The Environmental Impact of Palm Oil
The environmental impacts of palm oil include deforestation, climate change, habitat destruction and species loss. Steps you can take to avoid palm oil.
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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 […]
EarthTalk: Palm Oil and Forest Destruction
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 […]
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 […]
EarthTalk: The Consequences of Palm Oil
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 […]
The Weekly Mulch from the Media Consortium: Big Oil Cash Spreads Across Gulf as Light Sweet Crude
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 […]
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.
