Sumatra Burning: How our insatiable appetite for a little-known product is turning our skies black (VIDEO)

How is a product we all consume daily turning the skies black with choking smoke in several Southeast Asian nations?

The Coconuts TV team headed to the island of Sumatra to connect the dots between slash-and-burn farming for plantations producing palm oil and the clouds of smoke which at times have blanketed Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Put on your masks as we travel into the heart of palm oil in this two-part series, “Sumatra Burning.”



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