Oil Palm Plantations Are Driving Massive Downstream Impact To Watershed
The global demand for palm oil—the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to..
Eurasia Review
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians. There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian people from the north who introduced Austronesian languages and pigs about 3,500 years ago. They also left a small but significant genetic trace in many coastal Papuan peoples.
The global demand for palm oil—the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to..