Before the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, cotton gins dumped millions of pounds of cotton seeds into nearby rivers. In the meantime, cotton seeds had been valued in the West Indies for ...

Palm oil is used in a plethora of household products, from food items like packaged pastries and chips to cosmetics and soaps or even biofuels. But most palm oil is produced on mono-crop plantations, ...

A new study identifies the palm oil mills in Indonesia with the most clearance of orangutan habitat happening around them. The top 10 mills are all on the island of Borneo and are producing palm oil ...