Palm oil is in 50% of everything you can buy in the supermarket and it has become an intrinsic ingredient of modern consumer products.

To make more of it as cheaply and quicly as possibles, companies have been willing to turn some of Earth’s most valuable forests into tinder, blanketing swathes of Southeast Asia in toxic smoke.

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.

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