Walk into your kitchen, read a few packaged food labels, and you are likely to spot palm oil more, from instant noodles to ...

Palm oil contains about 50% saturated fat, which increases "bad" LDL cholesterol. But it is better for you than other tropical oils like coconut oil.

Expanded pulp and palm oil plantations linked to Asian haze Posted on septiembre, 20 2013 WWF has renewed calls for zero-burn policies to be enacted as satellites show that almost 90 per cent of the ...

Walking into the cooking oil part of the grocery store can seem overwhelming. So many bottles line those shelves, you know, promising different things. Feeling confused about which one is best is ...

Palm oil is one of the world’s most widely used vegetable oils and found in nearly 50 percent of all packaged products, according to the World Wildlife Fund.It plays a vital role in foods, baked ...

Pekanbaru, Sumatra: Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and ...

“Palm oil has been a pervasive problem for a while,” said Ashley Thomson, a senior policy adviser at Global Witness. “What this analysis shows, in the other commodities as well, is just how ...

Palm oil is in bread, instant noodles, Girl Scout cookies, lipstick, Nutella and ice cream, to name a few. People around the world use it to cook daily. But to make all of that oil, ...

More than 2 million hectares (5 million acres) of oil palm, pulpwood and other concessions across Indonesia are at high risk of being burned because of companies’ failure to restore the peat ...

Also read → How governments are getting a handle on palm oil. A yield comparison between the two formats was made. Researchers noted that palm can be planted at 150 palms per hectare of plantation, ...