News tagged with oil palm
Orangutans struggle to survive as palm oil booms
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists.
Carbon-offsetting and conservation can both be winners in rainforest
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Logged rainforests can support as much plant, animal and insect life as virgin forest within 15 years if properly managed, research at the University of Leeds has found.
Predators key to sustainable farming
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Barn owls have emerged as the unlikely heroes in the fight against climate change, saving Malaysian farmers more than money, UQ PhD Student Chong Leong Puan has found.
'Green' energy from algae
Aug 06, 2009 |
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In view of the shortage of petrochemical resources and climate change, development of CO2-neutral sustainable fuels is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. Energy plants like rape or oil palm a ...
Carbon payments payments could protect orangutans, pygmy elephants in Borneo
Jun 04, 2009 |
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A new report published today provides compelling evidence that paying to conserve billions of tons of carbon stored in tropical forests could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants, and other wildlife at risk of extinction. ...
Rubber plantations could have 'devastating' impact in Asia
May 21, 2009 |
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The expansion of rubber plantations in southeast Asia could have a "devastating" environmental impact, scientists warned Thursday as they pressed for a substantial increase in forest preserves.
Scientist warns that palm oil development may threaten Amazon
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Oil palm cultivation is a significant driver of tropical forest destruction across Southeast Asia. It could easily become a threat to the Amazon rainforest because of a proposed change in Brazil's legislation, ...
Singapore-made biofuel to run cars in Europe, North America
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Diesel made from palm oil, vegetable oil and animal fat in Singapore may soon be powering cars in Europe and North America, Finland's Neste Oil said Friday.
Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests
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Sep 15, 2008 |
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The continued expansion of oil palm plantations will worsen the dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, unless rainforests are better protected, warn scientists in the most comprehensive review ...
Biofuels and biodiversity don't mix, ecologists warn
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned. A new study of the potential ecological ...
