Travel funding for this project was provided by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. PERAK, Malaysia—When Herzuza Dongkin turned her scooter off the paved road and into her small oil palm ...

RAXRUHA, Guatemala (Reuters) - In the poor, hot region of Guatemala that was home to a seven-year-old migrant girl before she died in U.S. border custody last month, palm oil cultivation is taking ...

On a hillside on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, about 50 red-haired refugees are learning how to be orangutans once again. The country's booming palm oil industry has encroached on their habitats, ...

PalmWatch, an online, open-source tool, is seeking to bring greater transparency to the global palm oil supply web, to better help consumers trace the impact of the commodity. A key hurdle to ...

As the palm oil industry evolves, Malaysia’s smallholders are helping shape a more sustainable future, grounded in collaboration and community. On Carey Island, Malaysia, the sun shines down on rows ...

When you pull a pie crust out of the freezer aisle at the grocery store or a sleeve of cookies off the shelf, it’s likely that one of the ingredients they contain is dietary fat, such as soybean or ...

Shara Ticku was boarding a flight to Singapore for a work trip when her company handed her a stack of N95 masks. This was July 2013, when most of us had never even tried on a face mask. At that time, ...

On a former sugarcane plantation in Oahu that was abandoned for decades, rows of trees now grow in the degraded soil. The trees—called pongamia—aren’t new to Hawaii. But a company called Terviva is ...

Nigeria spends $600 million annually importing palm oil despite having the natural resources and historical expertise to produce it locally.

The District Agriculture Office, Chümoukedima launched a Custom Hiring Centre (CHC) to provide farm machinery on rent to oil palm farmers on October 29. The centre was inaugurated by Chümoukedima ...