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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.
Most of the 11 people reported missing after a boat capsized off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra were rescued Tuesday, ...
At least seven hectares of land were scorched by forest and land fires across Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend, ...
The SAR agency received a report about the incident at 5:40 p.m. on Monday, more than six hours after the boat overturned.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...