Utilisation of BSF larvae could help to stem the expansion of damaging palm oil production, researchers from UK-based consultancy Tunley Environmental, claim in a new study. Cultivation of palm for ...

With palm oil’s links to deforestation under increasing scrutiny, a new start-up is developing an alternative through fermentation - using side streams as feedstock. Palm oil is a commodity with ...

The biggest deforestation hotspot for palm oil in Indonesia is located on a small island off the southern Borneo coast, new data show. Up to 10,650 hectares (26,317 acres) of forest — one-sixth the ...

By Bernadette Christina and Ashley Tang KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Indonesia's move to pause biodiesel expansion and ...

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, ...

Palm oil comes from the fruit of oil palm trees (Elaeis guineensis) and is suitable for consumption. Oil palm trees only grow in tropical regions, being native to Africa and brought to southeast Asia ...