The new Sumatra map. Click image to visit the interactive version of the map. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups known as Eyes on the Forest have released ...

Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its ...

Despite many years of research in conservation biology, precise maps of tropical deforestation that document the global spatial extent of tropical forests destruction are generally not available ...

An expert says deforestation and poor land management make Sumatra floods far deadlier than floods in nearby Southeast Asian ...

There is a new mapping tool that documents the disturbing loss of forest cover in Sumatra Island in Indonesia. Sumatra, one of the largest islands in the world, is known to be the only place where ...

The Sippongang River Valley remains covered in primary forest due to local fears of the orang bunian. Credit: Gregory McCann Subscribe for ads-free reading “We don’t go up to the mountain tops,” the ...

The central government is currently assessing infrastructure damage across Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra following ...

The death toll in the floods which struck Indonesia last week has now climbed to 631 on Tuesday, with rescue workers still ...

Indonesia's military stepped up its relief efforts in three provinces on Sumatra island devastated by deadly floods and ...

SINGAPORE — The Buraq is said to have transported the Prophet Muhammad on his over-night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and back. It is described as having a white body half-mule and half-donkey, the ...

Figure 1: Tectonic setting and ruptures of major interplate earthquakes along the Sunda megathrust. The Sumatran section of the Sunda megathrust generated great earthquakes south of the 2004 event in ...