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English episode: For years we have been told that palm oil is the worst, but now it turns out that the production of coconut oil has much greater negative consequences for the planet.

Professor Douglas Sheil (from NMBU and Wageningen University) says that it is not so important what the oil is made of - the most important is how it is made.

Warning: You have to put up with the interviewer speaking a little clumsy Bergensk-English from time to time

Read more here: https://partner.sciencenorway.no/agriculture-endangered-species-environment/coconut-oil-threatens-more-species-than-palm-oil/1708126

 

Og på norsk her: https://forskning.no/biologisk-mangfold-mat-naturvern/kokosnott--et-storre-miljoproblem-enn-tidligere-antatt/1708590