Indonesia Is Killing the Planet for Palm Oil
Indonesia is being deforested faster than any other country in the world, and it has everything to do with one product: palm oil. According to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change, deforestation in the Southeast Asian archipelago is nearly double the rate in the Amazon. Indonesia is said to have lost 840,000 hectares (3,250 square miles) of forest in 2012 while Brazil — which has four times Indonesia’s rainforest — lost a still-massive 460,000 hectares.
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