How to Use oil palm in a Sentence

oil palm

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• The oil palm plant grows best at ten degrees to the north and south of the equator.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2021
• Bio IOS uses the residue of pressed palm oil collected from the fruit of the oil palm.
  — Kao Contributor, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Neat rows of oil palm seedlings stretched toward the horizon.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 29 June 2019
• Chimpanzees were given a choice of coula nuts and oil palm nuts.
  — Daryl Perry, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022
• The more fortunate are marooned on small islands of trees among oil palms.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 29 June 2019
• Palm oil is a saturated fat made from the oil palm tree (not to be confused with palm kernel oil, which comes from the seeds of the same plant).
  — Rochelle Bilow, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
• The oil palms that developers plant in the scorched earth also fail to serve any of the ecosystem functions that the original forest did.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 18 Sep. 2019
• Here, in Indonesia, oil palm plantations have been one of the largest drivers of deforestation in the last decade.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• A year ago Adeline was tending to an oil palm in the plantation when about 20 members of a separatist militia grabbed her, stuffed leaves in her mouth and tied her to the tree.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• Wetlands continue to be destroyed in Southeast Asia and the Congo region of Africa, mainly to plant oil palm.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2018
• Some was due to oil palm plantations, but mining was by far the dominant cause, Dethier says.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 11 Jan. 2023
• The rest live in the southern states of peninsular Malaysia, where forests are quickly being converted to oil palm plantations.
  — Rachel Nuwer, National Geographic, 22 June 2020
• Johnson wants to tell the world about wild oil palm and alternative production models.
  — Emma Reynolds, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
• Nor will vertical farms raise livestock or grow oil palms, which are mainly what people are clearing hardwood forests to make room for.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
• One of those earthly elixirs is batana oil, an oil extracted from the nuts of the American oil palm tree by the indigenous people of La Moskitia, Honduras.
  — Kaitlyn McNab, Allure, 17 Nov. 2021
• The tigers' habitats are shrinking because of oil palm, coffee and acacia plantations.
  — Kelly Murray, CNN, 9 July 2022
• Other than cassava and oil palm, all are important U.S. crops.
  — Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 9 July 2019
• Other tropical oils—like coconut oil—have lower yields than oil palm and would have even greater impacts if cultivated on the same scale.
  — James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022
• But in the 1980s, concession holders started to dig drainage canals through peatlands to float out logs and dry out the peat to plant dryland crops, especially oil palm and acacia trees for pulp and paper.
  — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 1 Oct. 2019
• In the past decade, some in the Southeast Asian nation have gone to great lengths to counter the scientific conclusion that its oil palm industry is releasing huge amounts of carbon.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021
• But large industries producing crude oil, rice, and oil palm have displaced many ranches, disrupting the heritage of local llaneros, or people of the plains.
  — Nathalia Angarita, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2022
• Much of their tropical rainforest homelands are being cleared to make way for oil palm plantations.
  — Ralph Steadman, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
• More than 10 percent of the Indonesian population lives below the poverty line, and the country wants to build 3 million hectares of oil palm and sugar plantation in Papua.
  — Nithin Coca, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
• Currently, Southeast Asia is the oil palm hotspot, and the deforestation and ensuing damage in the region have been well publicized.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2018
• In Borneo, for instance, oil palm cultivation has accounted for more than half of all deforestation over the past two decades.
  — James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022
• Large portions of tropical forests and carbon-rich peatlands are being cleared in southeast Asia, Africa and Latin American to make way for oil palm plantations.
  — David Carrig, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2018
• Palm oil, a vegetable oil derived from the fruit of the African oil palm tree, winds up in a lot of U.S. foods: cookies, crackers, chocolate, cereals, breakfast bars, cake mixes, doughnuts, potato chips and margarine.
  — Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• Yet surging cultivation of oil palm trees is linked to burning of tropical rainforests and the destruction of wildlife habitats in Southeast Asia.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• But Roucoux worries that someday oil palm harvesters or other farmers will target the area for development.
  — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• Land has been appropriated in Southeast Asia and Brazil to expand oil palm production and in parts of Africa to produce plantation crops such as cacao.
  — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024