For decades, Indonesia has been blighted by some of the highest levels of deforestation on earth. It also provides more than half the world’s palm oil. The two things are directly related. Palm oil – ...

A new study identifies the palm oil mills in Indonesia with the most clearance of orangutan habitat happening around them. The top 10 mills are all on the island of Borneo and are producing palm oil ...

Our appetite for the oil hurts the environment and wildlife. But Gabon hopes to show how to build an industry while protecting its forests. MalaysiaBunches of oil palm fruit harvested by hand are ...

I HAVE long harboured a quiet ambition – not the trumpet-blowing kind of social media, but a stubborn wish to explain palm oil without frightening flow charts or reviving science trauma. For years, I ...