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 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 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 ...

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.

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.

You can make jet fuel from palm oil. It doesn’t even need to be fresh. You can take palm oil, put it in a deep fryer, use it to make french fries, reuse it again and again until it becomes gross ...

In an effort to turn things around, UK supermarket Iceland pledged last month to halt the use of palm oil in its own-brand products. But the real problem isn’t in your kitchen cupboard or ...

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To try to reduce the world's reliance on palm oil, Ms Ticku, who was formerly an investment banker, and her co-founders set up C16 Biosciences in New York City in 2018.

2. "Adding palm oil to the diets of children or during pregnancy in developing countries reduces the chance of having low vitamin A levels", says Dr Pooja Malhotra, Senior Nutritionist from Gurgaon.