From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?
Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...
A palm oil company, a group of US financiers, and the destruction of Peru's rainforest
A company backed by US investors sold "deforestation-free" palm oil to the makers of Cheetos, Colgate and Pepsi. But its investors have ties to the company that cleared Amazonian rainforest for ...
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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest
Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. From above, the surrounding landscape looks like ...
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Indonesia risks carbon ‘backfire’ with vast deforestation for sugarcane
The country's plan to clear rainforests half the size of Switzerland for sugarcane plantations would make it one of the world's largest legalised deforestation undertakings.