Palm oil trees are major source of vegetable oil, but farming them can carry a heavy environmental impact. Liberian company J-Palm wants to fix that.

Following is a transcript of the video. Palm oil is a cheap and ubiquitous. It's used in thousands of everyday products and is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet. You can get a ...

According to World Growth, over 41% of palm oil plantations were owned by small landowners in 2008, producing 6.6 million tons of palm oil. The palm oil industry contributes approximately 4.5% of ...

Palm oil is facing an almost insurmountable challenge in its bid to replace fossil fuel as an energy source. Gasoil, also known as diesel, has slumped more than 45% this year, sending its discount ...

Indonesia will start restricting exports of palm oil this week, a move that could make the global food crisis worse and push up the prices of hundreds of consumer products.

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 ...

Palm oil is hidden in lots of food and products that we use every day without us realising it. But now more and more people are talking about the oil and the damage it can do to the environment.

Palm oil makes up up to 20% of the weight of most packs of instant noodles and is used to pre-cook the noodles so you ... However it contains lots of saturated fat, which can be bad for ...