Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, Southern Californians have been encouraged, for years, to rip ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, bristlecone pines are the oldest livings organisms on the planet. These are the oldest living to animals, according to the International Fund for ...

The targeted acreage of oil palm trees was to enable the country to get the required 410,000 metric tonnes of oil products by ...

For more than a century, Coachella Valley date farmers have proven their ability to adapt, endure, and thrive.

The Balaalo (nomads) who have been grazing their cattle in plantations owned by Oil Palm Uganda Limited (OPUL) in the island district of Kalangala, have started ferrying their herds to their original ...

A research team has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that logging ...

Forests are also cleared to make space for palm oil plantations ... Humans have been clearing trees for thousands of years, even before we started farming around 10,000 years ago, according ...

Understanding how different aspects of tropical forests are affected by logging and conversion to oil palm plantations ... For example, when older, larger trees are removed, this creates gaps in the ...

Now researchers say there is a solution that could mitigate the damage. Setting up forests or “tree islands” in large oil palm farms can help restore biodiversity and ecosystems by aiding the natural ...

Aging palms are a growing problem, dropping dried fronds on roadways and disappearing from their sky-high perch. Simply put, many of LA’s legendary palm trees are approaching the end of their ...

above ground – as a source of future growth, farm drones have been frequently mentioned as a pioneering innovation.

“Oil palms are trees, right? They have leaves ... of oil palm plantations in Indonesia to meet growing global demand. Today, palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, found ...