Illegal deforestation has reportedly surged to record levels in a wildlife reserve at the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to comprise 17,000 islands). Because ...

Whole villages and towns were literally wiped off the face of the map. Several million more people ... Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra was closest to the epicentre of the huge 9.2 magnitude ...

At least 17 people have died after being swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly ...

In November, the group found that Apical was among several palm oil traders sourcing palm oil fruits from illegal plantations within a nature reserve in Sumatra ... official maps or files ...

In 1024, Rajendra Chola dreamt up the grandest, riskiest, campaign ever planned by a medieval Indian ruler: an attack across ...

Indonesia has several subduction zones that stretch from the tip of Sumatra Island to Papua. The latest research conducted ... and the preparation of evacuation routes along with maps and directions.

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it ...

But, as can be seen on the map below, most of these communities are located in the ... According to his writings there were a number of Nestorian churches in West Sumatra around that time, located ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

In 2012, Nippon Indosari opened two new factories in Palembang (Sumatra ... expansion (32 percent). The map below - that indicates Nippon Indosari's spatial distribution of factories - shows a major ...

The demand for sand is soaring in places like Singapore. But extracting sand from the sea is destructive. It’s worth looking ...