The president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has bet big on biofuels - placing significant pressure on ecosystems and ...

Amazon.com and IKEA, in alliance with about three dozen other companies that depend on ocean freight, will invite shipping ...

India's palm oil imports in October rose 60% from September to 845,682 metric tons on festive demand and as refiners boosted ...

Environmental group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) alleges that palm oil sourced from illegally cleared land within a ...

Indigenous activist Nemonte Nenquino fought drilling in the Amazon. Her new memoir is the pick of Reese Witherspoon's book club this month.

By Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) -Consumer brands including Nestle and Procter & Gamble said they conducted ...

In late September 2014 a besuited and bearded Leonardo DiCaprio stood at the grey marble dais in the UN General Assembly in ...

The world’s top certification body for ethical palm oil is set to vote on a major new standard aimed at balancing ...

Despite the success in curbing Amazon deforestation, Lula's government has been criticized by environmentalists for backing projects that could harm the region, such as the pavement of a highway that ...

The Body Shop doesn’t use phthalates or triclosan. The Body Shop does use palm oil but says it is all is 100% sustainably sourced. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) system has several ...