and taller trees are more difficult to harvest. Photograph by PASCAL MAITRE Indonesia and Malaysia are now the epicenter of palm oil, but the oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is not native to Asia.

Palm oil is cheap, tasty, extremely versatile, and its an ingredient in about half of everything - but is palm oil vegan?

Palm oil is environmentally controversial because the trees grow in rainforest regions. Up to half of the deforestation in these regions is due to palm tree plant harvesting. Palm oil is still in ...

Follow it back through the supply chain and eventually you'll find an oil palm tree, likely in Indonesia ... the jungle on the island of Sumatra - harvesting rubber as well as hunting and ...

Now researchers say there is a solution that could mitigate the damage. Setting up forests or “tree islands” in large oil palm farms can help restore biodiversity and ecosystems by aiding the natural ...

A company backed by US investors sold "deforestation-free" palm oil to the makers of Cheetos, Colgate and Pepsi. But its ...

Most areas suitable for growing the oil crop are key habitats ... Palm oil comes from the oil palm tree, which is native to West Africa. However, most palm oil is currently grown in Indonesia ...

Oil palm trees are native to Africa but were brought to South-East Asia just over 100 years ago as an ornamental tree crop. Now, Indonesia and Malaysia make up over 85% of global supply but there are ...

KUALA LUMPUR/MUMBAI : Malaysia's palm oil production is set to fall for the fourth consecutive month in December as heavy ...

However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests transformed the palm from the revered “Tree of Life” to a cash crop monoculture grown on Pacific atolls for a singular purpose — production of ...

But due to a growing popularity that's occurred over the last 50 years, now the tree is raised and harvested in more areas, ...