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Palm oil has a bad reputation - but is coconut oil worse?...A new study argues coconut production poses a threat to biodiversity - including vertebrates, arthropods, mollusks, and plants - five times greater than palm oil. But the paper, published on 6 July in Current Biology, has triggered a ferocious debate on social media, where critics have accused the authors of promoting dubious statistics and an attempt to whitewash palm oil.
