Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry ...

At a sun-dappled clearing, fish splash in ... “There’s so much degraded land [across the tropics]. Why would you send your palm oil plantations to countries that have so much existing forest?” ...

Indonesian authorities will hand over more land that has been seized in probes into illegal palm plantations to new state ...

Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld the government’s decision to block further expansion of the Tanah Merah oil palm project ...

Land-clearing fires set by large oil palm plantation owners were the single largest cause of the massive 1997-1998 fires in Borneo. The social impacts of oil palm plantations are just beginning to ...

Previously, the Sarawak government granted these “provisional” leases to palm oil and timber companies to develop plantations before the administration surveyed the land. Despite the name ...

as they would be interpreted by government officials as a directive to continue destructive land expansion and clearing natural forests for plantations. “If palm oil expansion is left unchecked ...

Palm oil has found its way into more than half of packaged products Americans consume, in part because it's so cheap and easy to grow. But the versatile substance has long been a target of ...

Crude palm oil (CPO) prices have doubled since 2015 but plantation stocks have underperformed CPO ones by 69% over the same ...