It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...

Palm oil can be found in many things, from make-up to pizza, soap to chocolate. Rosette Ale, a sustainable fashion business owner, explains how the demand for palm oil is unfortunately leading to ...

MalaysiaBunches of oil palm fruit harvested by hand are trucked to a mill for processing in mainland Malaysia. Oil palms yield more oil per acre than do other crops. But soaring demand for the ...

Image by Amy Downes. A pig-tailed macaque searching a palm tree for an unusual meal. As our plane came into land in Kuala Lumpur, the first thing we noticed was the palm oil plantations stretching ...

Following the acquisition, First Resources aims to boost its palm oil output by 25% to 1.25 million tonnes per year. Last year, the company’s net profit jumped 56 % to $228.8 million as revenue ...