UMass Study Reveals Oil Palm Plantations Deteriorate Water Quality in hoodline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hoodline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The global demand for palm oil the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick is driving worldwide tropical deforestation.
Researchers at UMass Amherst have found that Indigenous populations bear the environmental and public health costs when native Indonesian forests are converted to oil palm plantations.
Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed phys.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phys.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.