Indonesia In 2015 this forest growing on peatland on the island of Borneo was burned to clear the land for oil palms. ... Palm oil production is far more mechanized in Asia than in Africa.

Environmental concerns mount as palm oil production surges Environmental concerns mount as palm oil ... In Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan, oil palm plantations have expanded from 13,140 ...

Demand for palm oil is driving deforestation in Borneo, as trees are cleared to make way for the planting of oil farm plantations, which will send carbon dioxide, a global-warming gas, into the ...

The palm oil industry was responsible for at least 39% of forest loss in biodiversity-rich Borneo island between 2000 and 2018, data from an Indonesia-based research firm shows. The Center for ...

Expanding palm-oil production is driving rain-forest destruction in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, also known as Kalimantan, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and Yale ...

Monoculture palm oil production has come at the cost of rainforest habitat, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia. Researchers are conducting experimental trials in Malaysian Borneo to see if ...

Palm oil has become controversial because of its impact on rainforests. As oil palm trees grow best around the equator, palm oil deforestation has seen large areas of tropical rainforest cleared to ...

Between 1995 and 2005, global palm oil production doubled. By 2015, ... Roughly a third of that deforestation was caused by palm oil, according to a 2022 study. In Borneo, ...