Environment
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Plantations to Pollution: Oil Palms Drive Downstream Deterioration, Researchers Find
The global demand for palm oil—the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick—is driving worldwide tropical deforestation.
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