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Battling oil-palm devastation — from space

By Mark A. Bonta / September 25, 2018 / Comments Off on Battling oil-palm devastation — from space

Oil palm plantations can destroy rain forests and the communities that depend on them, but they are widespread in Colombia, the fourth-largest exporter of palm oil in the world. Now a new project of the UK Space Agency aims to use high tech gadgetry to make palm oil cultivation in Colombia more sustainable, more scientific, […]

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