The resilient pongamia tree is sometimes called a “supertree” because it can grow on degraded soil with little water or fertilizer. Terviva developed a method to process beans from the trees to make edible oil and protein

On a former sugarcane plantation in Oahu that was abandoned for decades, rows of trees now grow in the degraded soil. The trees—called pongamia—aren’t new to...

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