Palm oil is easy, cheap and versatile, but it is destroying forests in Borneo - can the "golden" crop ever be sustainable, asks the BBC's Jennifer Pak.

An ape for palm oil? Why critics say Malaysia’s ‘orangutan diplomacy’ plan is problematic ... (19 million acres) of tree cover, according to a 2022 report by the World Wildlife Fund ...

Fresh fruit bunches of oil palm tree are are seen inside a wheelbarrow at a palm oil plantation in Kuala Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia April 26, 2022. Reuters Malaysia said on Thursday it could ...

Malaysia is the second-largest palm oil producer in the world, ... Agroforestry orchards support greater avian biodiversity than monoculture oil palm and rubber tree plantations, 513(1) ...

A palm tree plantation inside the Kinabatangan wildlife sanctuary. Malaysia and Indonesia supply 85 percent of the world’s palm oil. Endless Rows of Oil Palms ...

KLUANG: The Malaysian Palm Oil Board is in the midst of producing a new variety of oil palm tree that will grow only up to 6m, which will facilitate crop harvesting, according to deputy minister ...

Used in many food products, palm oil is a $65 billion global industry known for its exploitation of children overseas. An 11-year-old Tennessee Girl Scout decided to take action.

The palm tree is up to 10 times more efficient than other crops such as soybeans, rapeseed and canola in terms of the amount of land it needs. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, ...

An ape for palm oil? Why critics say Malaysia’s ‘orangutan diplomacy’ plan is problematic ... (19 million acres) of tree cover, according to a 2022 report by the World Wildlife Fund ...

China has “panda diplomacy,” Australia parades koalas at global summits, and now Malaysia plans to join the Asia-Pacific trend for adorable ambassadors, by gifting orangutans to countries that ...

“Malaysia’s land surface area was once almost covered with forest,” the WWF said in its forestry report, which cited enduring threats such as palm oil cultivation and unsustainable logging.