据外媒周二（12月8日）报导，迪拜世界(Dubai World)旗下房地产公司棕榈树(Nakheel PJSC)上半年亏损134亿迪拉姆(dirhams)(约合36.5亿美元)，主要是营收下滑，及减记土地与资产的价值影响。
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棕榈油现在越来越多地用于做菜和制造化妆品，最近的新技术还将其用于制造一种生物柴油。于是，受全球对棕榈油需求增加的影响，各大公司纷纷占地种植棕榈树。
Responding to global demand for palm oil, which is used in cooking and cosmetics and, lately, in an increasingly popular biodiesel, companies have been claiming any land they can.
几个月前，奔流的雨袭击了坐落在Total公司下面的地区，连根拔起那个地区一半的棕榈树，淹死44人。
A few months ago, torrential rains devastated the region that lies beneath Total's operations, uprooting nearly half the palm trees in the area and killing 44 people.
仅在坦桑尼亚就有超过20家欧洲公司提出了雄心勃勃的计划，开发一些甘蔗、麻风树、棕榈树种植园区，用以生产生物燃料。
In Tanzania alone, there are ambitious proposals put forward by more than twenty European companies to establish several sugar, Jatropha and palm-oil plantations in order to produce biofuels.
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