Costa Rica is a major producer of oranges, but local orange juice-making companies tend to have little use of orange peels. So in 1998 one of those juice makers dumped 12,000 tons of peels and leftover pulp on a barren 3-hectare swathe of former pastureland for cattle. Then everyone quickly…

The European Union is a world-leader in environmentally sound policies and practices. Or is it? The grouping has long portrayed itself as a leader in conservationism, but that self-image is deeply flawed, environmentalists stress, when it comes to the continent’s green energy policies. “The EU gets 65 per cent of…

Malaysia has been one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of palm oil for the last forty years.  Resulting in great environmental controversy, the palm oil industry has also built economies, seen explosive demand increases, found its way into a staggering range of products around the world and lately,…