Palm oil may be a good substitute for trans fats in that it stays solid at room temperature and is therefore useful as a food additive in things like snack bars. But it isn’t much healthier.

Greenpeace has released research showing that the expansion of oil palm and pulpwood plantations was responsible for nearly two-thirds of the destruction of Sumatran tiger habitat from 2009 to 2011.

While Panama still faces tremendous conservation challenges, it's well on its way to meeting these challenges head-on, and ...

A new report by Greenpeace finds that palm oil suppliers to the world’s largest brands have cleared more than 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles) of rainforest — an area the size of the ...

“Rapid and relentless deforestation for industrial-scale agriculture, particularly palm oil and timber plantations, leaves orangutans without food and shelter, exposing them to hunters who kill ...

Palm oil has become part of our daily lives, but a recent study by EPFL and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) serves as a reminder that intensive farming of ...

By John Cannon Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group ...

While the Rainforest Action Network has been critical of PepsiCo and our robust sustainable palm oil plan, this year, the Union of Concerned Scientists, an ally of the RAN, gave PepsiCo an 80 on ...

"Until Iceland can guarantee palm oil is not causing rainforest destruction, we are simply saying 'no to palm oil',” Iceland Managing Director Richard Walker said in a statement.

Palm oil in snack foods could be destroying the world’s “orangutan capital” Food manufacturers may be causing the destruction of a nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia ...

But whereas palm oil was a major driver of rainforest destruction 10 years ago, it's really diminished. Kate Linebaugh: Since 2016, the rate of deforestation in Indonesia has fallen every year ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — From trees felled in protected national parks to massive swaths of jungle razed for palm oil and paper plantations, Indonesia had a 27% uptick in primary forest loss in 2023 ...