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Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has reported two separate forest and land fires in North and West ...
Most of the 11 people reported missing after a boat capsized off Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra were rescued on ...
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 ...
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.
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, ...
On September 13 at 1630 GMT watch “Expedition: Sumatra,” a half-hour feature program with CNN Special Correspondent Philippe Cousteau. Follow him on Twitter. Traveling just below the equator ...
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 ...
The international research team established 52 tree islands of varying sizes and diversity of planted trees in a conventional industrial oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia.
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 ...