Palm oil is rarely used for cooking in the United States and Europe, but it’s found in countless consumer products. Its environmental effects depend hugely on where the oil was produced.

Honduras is among the ten largest palm oil producers in the world. Accurately detecting the current plantation status and oil palm distribution is crucial to optimize the planting layout. However, ...

Oil palm is of great importance in agricultural productivity for many tropic developing countries and accordingly investigating as well as counting oil palms is a meaningful and valuable research. In ...

Unfortunately, the environmental impacts of palm oil production are significant, primarily due to deforestation, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss.

• Functionality: Collect photos of oil palm trees, tagging images with relevant metadata, including location, visual symptoms, and tree health status. The data collected is sent to an ArcGIS Online ...

Palm trees are recognized as the symbol for Los Angeles. Many have reached the edges of their lifespan.

After being tipped off about unsustainable logging at a state-run oil palm plantation, former Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) fellow Low Choon Chyuan started a year-long investigation during ...

In the previous study, the researchers found that tree islands didn’t reduce yields of oil palm. Palms near tree islands actually had improved yields, which made up for trees that were removed.

The international research team established 52 tree islands of varying sizes and diversity of planted trees in a conventional industrial oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Tree islands restore nature in oil palm plantations Research team led by Göttingen University investigate native species recovery in Sumatra Date: November 18, 2024 Source: University of ...