PhysOrg: The continued expansion of oil palm plantations will worsen the dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, unless rainforests are better protected, warn scientists in the most comprehensive review of the subject to date. Lead author, Emily Fitzherbert from the Zoological Society of London and University of East Anglia said: “There has been much debate over the role of palm oil production in tropical deforestation and its impacts on biodiversity. We wanted to …