Most of the 11 people reported missing after a boat capsized off Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra were rescued on ...

Seven of the 18 people on board were rescued near the Mentawai islands.

At least seven hectares of land were scorched by forest and land fires across Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend, ...

Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 11 people who went missing after a boat capsized in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra province, according to a local search and rescue agency ...

Two people were hospitalized in critical condition after illegal fireworks being manufactured inside a home in Hayward ...

Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia's Sumatra island, killing at least 19 people and leaving 7 others missing, officials said Sunday morning local time. Tons ...

In 2015, during the ‘big fires’ of Sumatra, life in Kuala Lumpur almost came to a standstill. *** This time, landing in Palembang, the haze had been covering almost the entire runway.

However not all the news was bad for Sumatra’s forests. The data showed a 61 percent decline in the annual rate of clearing between the 1990s and the 2000s, falling from 542,000 to 211,000 ...

The Green Heart of Sumatra The Leuser Ecosystem, one of the world's richest yet least-known forest systems, is increasingly threatened by logging and encroachment by a burgeoning population. We ...

There are more than twice as many orangutans on the Indonesian island of Sumatra as we thought, according to a new survey. But deforestation and development could still see their numbers plummet ...

At 1.375 million hectares (3.4 million acres), or a tenth the size of Florida, Kerinci Seblat National Park is the largest protected area on Sumatra and the second-largest in Indonesia (after ...

Scientists: Sumatra quake longest ever recorded Temblor big enough to 'vibrate the whole planet ' By Marsha Walton CNN. The Sumatra-Andaman quake released an amount of energy equal to a 100 ...