Palm oil is a small ingredient in the U.S. diet, but more than half of all packaged products Americans consume contain palm oil—it’s found in lipstick, soaps, detergents and even ice cream. Grown only ...

Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil derived from the fruit of palm oil trees, which typically thrive in balmy, tropical rainforests. According to the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), 85 percent ...

Late last month, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the leading standard for certifying an oil found in half of all supermarket products, released a draft of a new set of rules for how the ...

Palm oil supply chain companies are required to ... employment (through a third party), ethical recruitment and children’s rights, while governance is via the Malaysian Anti-Corruption ...

Crude palm oil - Crude Palm Oil (CPO) is a vegetable oil obtained from the pulp from the fruit of oil palm trees. CPO is a reddish-brown oil, unlike its yellow-black counterparts. The name comes from ...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia :Indonesia's chief economic minister said on Thursday he is confident palm oil production can be increased in coming years to meet the country's rising demand for biofuel.

A new study highlights that a palm oil-rich diet can aggravate MS symptoms. The study, led by Patrizia Casaccia, founding director of the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate ...

EU law to reduce deforestation is on a knife’s edge, will leaders act? (commentary) ...

The link between palm oil and deforestation has been well-documented in recent years. The oil—which is used in everything from food to beauty products—has been linked with the destruction of some of ...

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires ...