Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was joy for a team of experts from Indonesia and the U.K. as they found a rare plant in a rainforest in Sumatra.

Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare meteorological event. Cyclone Senyar formed in the Malacca Strait, an area where the ...

A genome study involving the last remaining populations of the Sumatran rhinoceros - a solitary rainforest dweller - is providing what scientists called good news about the prospects of saving this ...

A camera trap in Indonesia has captured rare footage of a wild orangutan successfully using a canopy bridge to cross above a ...

More rain threated Indonesia's flood-ravaged island of Sumatra, where an official said starvation threated to raise the death toll - Copyright AFP AMANDA JUFRIAN More ...

At the northern tip of Sumatra, villagers deal with herds of elephants entering their villages and eating their crops. Incidents of human-wildlife conflict have intensified as more of the elephants’ ...

Sumatra’s rainforests are among the most important carbon sinks on Earth. The forests there have 720 million tonnes of carbon locked up in trees and soil. That’s the third-most carbon sequestered of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jared Ranahan is a reporter who covers travel and ecotourism. Aug 27, 2024, 12:30pm EDT There are three extant species of ...