Out of all the places we visited during our trip to Colombia, Salento was *probably* our favorite spot (Cartagena makes it a tough choice, though!). We loved the beautiful rolling hills, the mountains ...

Colombia has the third highest number of palms of any country, with around 260 species — but 20% of Colombian species are in serious danger of extinction. Alberto Gomez Mejia, a botanist and founder ...

Researchers in Colombia are using deep learning models to predict the ripeness of oil palm fruit, helping to increase efficiency. Isis Bonet Cruz, a Cuban researcher and professor at the La ...

Palm oil has become an environmental villain in recent years, as people have become more aware that producing it often involves clearing rainforests – but this happens less often in Colombia than in ...

Researchers studying oil palm plantations in Colombia found that mammal diversity dropped compared to nearby savanna. Some mammals used plantations for hunting and foraging, but none stayed ...

Palm oil is one of Colombia’s biggest agricultural exports, but the commodity has been linked to environmental and social damage in tropical areas around the world. Industry insiders say Colombian ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombia's palm oil industry and big businesses have pledged to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains as the country battles to reverse the growing ...

The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de ...

Last week, footage from Hurricane Ian slamming into Florida and South Carolina showed damaging winds and flying waves snapping and buckling trees. But as pines and oaks fell, most palm trees were able ...