Question

how will increase in palm oil will affect other oil

Answer 1

Around the world, eutrophication of rivers, lakes, streams and oceans is increasingly becoming a prominent environmental concern. Fertilizer nutrients and other chemical compounds are contaminating these water sources after washing away from residential lawns, public gardens and agricultural lands. Once in the watershed, phosphorus, nitrogen and similar nutrients promote abnormally robust growth of algae. When the algae eventually rot, the decomposition process depletes the oxygen supply in the water, causing fish and other organisms to die off, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

As eutrophication gets worse around the world, environmental scientists and farmers are working to improve agricultural practices to reduce nutrient pollution in runoff. One team of scientists from Stanford University decided to focus their research on oil palm plantations in Indonesia. They concluded that this cash crop not only contributes to global warming, but also to the contamination of freshwater, as published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.