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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Bima Arya Sugiarto, confirmed that the central government is currently assessing infrastructure damage across Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra ...

Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its northern parts, took the worst hit. The storm set off flash floods and ...

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Indonesian environmental activists say the floods and landslides that have devastated parts of Sumatra have been made worse by extensive deforestation driven by the approval of hundreds of extractive ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

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 ...

Indonesia's government says it will summon eight companies over their suspected role in worsening the scale of floods and landslides in Sumatra. But environmental groups say the government is ...