Malaysian Palm Oil Council tries to strikes back

Margaret just put up a great post on this blog about faulty advertising by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC). In following this story as it bounces around the net,…

Disinformation enables deforestation

A new study released in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution finds that while palm oil may pose the most direct threat to the highest number of endangered species…

Spotlight on Cargill

Have you seen the great series in the Minneapolis Star Tribune this week? One of our favorite reporters, Matt McKinney, is writing a whole week of expose on the effects…

Agrofuels: It’s not worth it

This post was written by our fabulous French communications intern, Virginie Corominas. In anticipation of a European directive that would mandate a 10 percent minimum of agrofuels in all fuel…