Palm oil plantation expansion has led to widespread deforestation in tropical countries like Indonesia and Malaysia. The PALM Risk Tool uses historical tree cover loss data and mill locations to gauge ...

Palm oil is used in a plethora of household products, from food items like packaged pastries and chips to cosmetics and soaps or even biofuels. But most palm oil is produced on mono-crop plantations, ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The palm oil industry, long accused of large-scale deforestation, is bracing for another hit to its business: machinery lubricants seeping into the world's most consumed ...

A cloud of steam gathered above their heads as Christiana Akpan and Ekaete Okon fetched oil palm fruits from a drum and poured them into a grinding machine. It was a bright Friday morning in March, ...