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How a small band of activists saved tropical forests by turning around 'Big Doughnut'
2015-02-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Picture a doughnut. That's small and easy, right? Now picture palm oil. Drawing a blank? That's because palm oil, a prized vegetable oil, is relatively unknown in America. But its market is huge because it's used in many different products like instant noodles, shampoo and, yes, doughnuts. It's so big that palm oil is connected to the destruction of the Earth's tropical forests on a scale that the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has called "an ecological disaster."...
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