When Sri Atmiatun arrived in the hills of the Batutegi region in southern Sumatra’s Lampung province in 2017, the coffee ...

Deadly floods and landslides in Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically ...

Climate change-fueled landslides wiped out nearly one in 10 remaining members of the world's rarest great ape species on ...

JAKARTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia’s Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, a new ...

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 ...

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A police officer sprays water in an attempt to extinguish a fire that razes through a peatland field in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, July 20, 2025. -- AP Photo/Muhammad Hatta JAKARTA ...

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Forest cover in Sumatra, 1990-2010. The extent of old-growth forest in Sumatra shrank by 40 percent over the past 20 years, while overall forest on the Indonesian island declined by 36 percent, finds ...

TEMPO.CO, Pekanbaru - Fire Hotspots that potentially trigger forest and peat land fires in a number of areas in Sumatra are now getting widespread. The number of hot spots has now risen to 674 hot ...