Sustainable oil palm industry: The possibilities

R Khatun, MIH Reza, M Moniruzzaman… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cruel oil or green gold is a dilemma for the oil palm industry. The oil palm industry (planting
and milling) has a devastating impact on the environment and ecosystems. Oil palm …

Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies

KH Erb, S Luyssaert, P Meyfroidt… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the light of daunting global sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity
loss and food security, improving our understanding of the complex dynamics of the Earth …

Greenhouse gas emission factors associated with rewetting of organic soils

D Wilson, D Blain, J Couwenberg, CD Evans… - 2016 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Drained organic soils are a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the
atmosphere. Rewetting these soils may reduce GHG emissions and could also create …

Indonesia's globally significant seagrass meadows are under widespread threat

RKF Unsworth, R Ambo-Rappe, BL Jones… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Indonesia's marine ecosystems form a fundamental part of the world's natural heritage,
representing a global maxima of marine biodiversity and supporting the world's second …

Feasibility of palm oil mill effluent elimination towards sustainable Malaysian palm oil industry

YD Tan, JS Lim - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is recognised as one of the biggest sources of pollution due to
its eutrophying nature and methane emitting treatment. Although biogas recovery and …

Climate change-induced increases in precipitation are reducing the potential for solar ultraviolet radiation to inactivate pathogens in surface waters

CE Williamson, S Madronich, A Lal, RG Zepp… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Climate change is accelerating the release of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to inland and
coastal waters through increases in precipitation, thawing of permafrost, and changes in …

Application of Box-Behnken design to mineralization and color removal of palm oil mill effluent by electrocoagulation process

Rakhmania, H Kamyab, MA Yuzir, FF Al-Qaim… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
In this study, palm oil mill effluent (POME) was treated using electrocoagulation, whereby the
influencing factors including voltage, electrolysis time, and electrolyte amount were …

Potential retention of dissolved organic matter by soil minerals during wetland water-table fluctuations

S Wang, T Liu, E Zhu, C He, Q Shi, X Feng - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Wetlands export large amounts of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) downstream, which is
sensitive to water-table fluctuations (WTFs). While numerous studies have shown that WTFs …

Unlocking the environmental hotspots of palm biodiesel upstream production in Malaysia via life cycle assessment

ZX Phuang, KS Woon, KJ Wong, PY Liew… - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Palm biodiesel has emerged as a potential renewable fuel to substitute vehicle fossil fuel in
Malaysia. The embodied environmental impacts due to palm biodiesel upstream production …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying tropical peatland dissolved organic carbon (DOC) using UV-visible spectroscopy

S Cook, M Peacock, CD Evans, SE Page, MJ Whelan… - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
UV–visible spectroscopy has been shown to be a useful technique for determining dissolved
organic carbon (DOC) concentrations. However, at present we are unaware of any studies in …