Recently, palm plantations in Guatemala have come under pressure to prove they're environmentally sustainable, but the official process is costly and can take years.

Indonesia on Wednesday handed over nearly 400,000 hectares (988,000 acres) of seized palm oil plantations to Agrinas Palma ...

Palm oil is in everything, from pizza dough and chocolate to laundry detergent and lipstick. Nongovernmental organizations blame it for contributing to assorted evils, from global warming to human ...

Treehugger / K. Martinko. This is a mature palm plantation that’s reaching the end of life. Oil palms are able to produce fruit for harvest within 4 to 6 years of planting, if fertilized well.

Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed Date: May 2, 2024 Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst Summary: The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely ...

Longitudinal visualization of changes in oil palm coverage of two exemplary plantations of CorpPalm (MGRS Tile 50 NNM). Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025 ...

Indonesia on Wednesday handed over nearly 400,000 hectares (988,000 acres) of seized palm oil plantations to Agrinas Palma ...

From 2001 to 2016, total tree loss in Indonesian palm oil concessions was equivalent to 34.2 per cent of the area covered by the plantations but the loss in certified sustainable plantations was ...

The $30 billion global palm-oil industry, which has boomed with demand from the U.S. and China, contributes to Asia’s human trafficking problem, some human-rights advocates say.

Palm oil alternative could avert devastation caused by plantations. Teams from the Universities of Bath and York are developing the substitute from a yeast grown using waste feedstocks ...

I just returned from an oil palm company in West Kalimantan that has set aside some 30% of its concession for conservation purposes. The company manages these conservation areas admirably well.

The global demand for palm oil—the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick—is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many ...