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Middle School Science: Corn & Palm Oil

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Corn Oil

Corn Monoculture: No Friend of Biodiversity
The Hidden Biodiversity Impacts of Global Crop Production and Trade
Website: Science for Environment Policy. Publisher: European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service
How the Growth of Monoculture Crops Is Destroying our Planet and Still Leaving us Hungry

For Migrant Workers on Illinois Farms, the Job is Hot, Risky
Chicago Tribune
Lawsuits Against Seed-corn Companies Shed Light on Rising Use of Labor Contractors
The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Monsanto, Seed-Corn Companies Continue Use of Contractors Despite Allegations of Migrant Labor Abuses

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma

Can You Really Save the Planet at the Dinner Table? An Economist’s Critique of The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Deconstructing Dinner
Book Review. By David Kamp
The New York Times Book Review, April 23, 2006
You Are What You Eat: A Journalist Traces the Meal On His Plate Back Through the Food Chain
Book Review. By Bunny Crumpacker
The Washington Post, April 9, 2006

Palm Oil

Investigating the Impacts of Palm Oil
Global Oneness Project
Palm Oil: Overview
WWF (World Wildlife Fund)
Palm Oil Blog
National Geographic
Palm Oil in Myanmar
Global Oneness Project. Photo gallery of 28 images and essay.
The Palm Oil Problem (Focus on Thailand)
Spiegel. Good overview, great short videos.

100,000 May Have Died But There is Still No Justice Over Indonesian Air Pollution
The Guardian
Final Report: Impact Study of the Project of Sustainable Palm Oil Production for Bio-Energy in Thailand
Follow-up to the 2010 video above!
Hong Kong Cleans Up 93 Tonnes of Palm Oil; Beaches Smothered By Spill
Impacts (Palm Oil)
Tigers
Malaysia Air Quality 'Unhealthy' as Haze Obscures Skies
Jakarta Globe
Palm Oil Mill Operations Suspended for Ammonia Pollution
The Sun Daily

Farming Like the Incas
Smithsonian Magazine
Hordes of Wild Pigs Make Palm Oil Even More Destructive
National Geographic
The Local Impacts of Oil Palm Expansion in Malaysia
Academic Paper. Center for International Forestry Research
A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop
Scientific American
Palm Oil from Ghana – Serendipalm Co. Ltd.
Serendiworld
Standard Chartered Fails to Protect Forests
Greenpeace
Sustainable Agriculture: Palm Oil
WWF (World Wildlife Fund)
Why Palm-oil Production is Going Green
The Economist

Biodiversity Scientist Warns: "We're Sleepwalking into a Mass Extinction"
Cruel Oil: How Palm Oil Harms Health, Rainforest & Wildlife
Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Search for Palm Oil and Human Health
The Hidden Biodiversity Impacts of Global Crop Production and Trade
Website: Science for Environment Policy. Publisher: European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service
Impacts (Palm Oil)
Tigers
Oil Palm Monoculture Induces Drastic Erosion of an Amazonian Forest Mammal Fauna
PLOS One
Saving Indonesia's Rainforests
Greenpeace
Switching from Monoculture to Polyculture Farming Benefits Birds in Oil Palm Production Landscapes: Evidence from Mist Netting Data

Bombus fraternus (Bumblebee)
See "Major Threats" IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Biofuels and Habitat Loss
Command F for corn
Endangered Orangutans and the Palm Oil Industry: An Environmental Science Case Study
New York Times
Extremely Endangered Tiger Losing Habitat—and Fast
National Geographic
Impacts - Palm Oil - Tiger
In Pictures: The Orangutan, Man of the Woods, on International Orangutan Day 2017
Greenpeace
A Refuge for Orangutans, and a Quandary for Environmentalists
New York Times
Saving Indonesia's Rainforests
Greenpeace
Saving the Sumatran Tiger
Greenpeace

Are Vegetable Oils Healthy?
CNN Health
Cruel Oil: How Palm Oil Harms Health, Rainforest & Wildlife
Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Search for Palm Oil and Human Health
Palm Oil: Good or Bad?
Healthline
What Are the Dangers of Palm Oil?
Livestrong

Palm Oil Facts & Figures on Sustainability and Trade
Europa (EU)
Why Palm-oil Production is Going Green
The Economist

Child Labour in Plantation
International Labour Organization
Palm Oil: Global Brands Profiting from Child and Forced Labour
Amnesty International
Politics of Palm Oil
YaleGlobalOnline

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