Pekanbaru, Sumatra: Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and ...

Improved weather on Saturday (November 29, 2025) helped rescuers on Indonesia’s Sumatra island recover more bodies as they struggled to reach several areas that were hit by landslides and flash floods ...

At least 248 dead after floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island - Rescue workers in Indonesia are struggling to reach victims in several devastated areas ...

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia‘s Sumatra island near Aceh province on Thursday, the country’s geophysics agency said. The tremors came from 10 kilometres deep inside the earth. As of yet, no ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Sixteen bodies have been recovered from beneath heavy mudslides and flood debris in Indonesia, after flash floods ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck inland near the western coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Friday, killing at least two people and causing tremors that were felt in ...

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, deep in ...

Editor’s Note: Lee Poston is Director of Media Relations at WWF and worked with the Expedition: Sumatra team on an eight-part program with CNN Special Correspondent Philippe Cousteau who explores the ...

Twelve years of deforestation in Sumatra have broken the habitats of its native big cat into smaller fragments, a new study says. Only two of the remaining tiger forest landscapes in Sumatra are ...

Some residents of the flood-hit island of Sumatra resorted to looting, seeking food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday. The floods, which hit nearly a week ago, have killed 303 people — ...