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February 2025

  • A toucan on a branch

    The age of extinction

    Richest nations ‘exporting extinction’ with demand for beef, palm oil and timber

    Consumption in wealthy countries including US and UK is responsible for 13% of global forest loss beyond their borders, study finds

January 2025

  • Peanut butter on sliced apple

    Palm oil makes peanut butter healthier and fresher

    Letter: Organic palm oil is an ethical alternative to hydrogenated fat and stops peanut butter tasting rancid, writes Craig Sams

December 2024

  • A picture of demonstrators, a man looking for Japanese knotweed, an Orangutan and her baby and a palm oil farm

    Down to Earth newsletter

    Dirty water, sentient trees and hope in a climate crisis: 10 environmental long reads to digest over Christmas

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October 2024

  • Aerial image of a bulldozer removing trees. Lush forests are on one side and barren earth on the other

    Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction

    Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report finds

May 2024

  • Two reddy brown orangutans handing from a perch

    Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

    ‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says minister

December 2023

  • Close-up of part of a Virgin Atlantic plane

    Calls for tighter rules on biofuels imports to root out palm oil fraud

    Investigations suggest a large share of ‘used’ cooking oil being imported could be wrongly labelled as demand outpaces supply

November 2023

  • A man and two soldiers looking out over a national park containing an illegal oil palm plantation in Honduras.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean

    Deadly harvest: how demand for palm oil is fuelling corruption in Honduras

    Latin America is the fastest-growing producer of the lucrative crop, but at what price for the environment and its defenders?

July 2023

  • A small Asian elephant amid long grass

    The age of extinction

    Making tracks: how linking patches of wilderness is saving Borneo’s wildlife

    Palm oil plantations have fragmented Sabah’s rainforest but land corridors let pygmy elephants and orangutans roam again

March 2023

  • Nick Dearden

    ‘Take back control’? With this Pacific trade deal, Brexit Britain has just signed it away

    Nick Dearden

    Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, asks Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now

November 2022

  • Cattle graze near a burnt area of the Amazon rainforest near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil.

    The age of extinction

    Food firms’ plans for 1.5C climate target fall short, say campaigners

    Major producers of soya and beef accused of failing to deliver on pledges to stop deforestation

August 2022

  • Prince William delivers a speech at the Tusk conservation awards in London last year

    Prince William charity uses bank that is one of world’s biggest fossil fuel backers

    Royal Foundation also places investments in trust that owns shares in firms that buy palm oil, investigation reveals

July 2022

  • Workers plant oil-palm seeds at a plantation in the Muallim district of Malaysia

    Push for post-Brexit trade deals may threaten UK pledges on deforestation

    Government criticised over ‘indefensible’ proposal that could undermine climate efforts while yielding benefit of only £1.38m

May 2022

  • Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, on their currrent Music of the Spheres tour.

    Dear Coldplay, listen to Massive Attack and save yourselves from greenwashing

    Eleanor Salter

  • people buy cooking oil in Indonesia

    ‘How many more months should we suffer?’: Indonesians struggle with pricey cooking oil

April 2022

  • Bags of cooking oil in Indonesia

    Indonesia’s palm oil export ban sparks concern over global food prices

    Expert says every country will suffer as world’s biggest palm oil producer bans exports of commodity used in food, cosmetics and cleaning products

March 2022

  • Orang-utan in Iceland/Greenpeace ad

    Iceland reverts to palm oil ‘with regret’ as Ukraine war hits food prices

    Supermarket boss says only alternative would be ‘to clear our freezers and shelves of a wide range of staples’

February 2022

  • FLAMES illustration

    The long read

    ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder

    The long read: Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. But this isn’t good news – in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable

January 2022

  • Forest clearance in Indonesia.

    Biodiversity: what happened next?

    The UK city taking a stand on palm oil in the fight against deforestation

    A growing number of towns and villages are following Chester’s lead in helping local businesses to eradicate deforestation-linked oil from their supply chains

November 2021

  • Burnt land next to a palm oil plantation in Central Kalimantan

    Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people

  • Chocolate spread in spoon. A jar of hazelnut chocolate spread.Chocolate spread in spoon. A jar of hazelnut chocolate spread.

    Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer

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