The island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has shaken many times with powerful earthquakes since the one that wrought the infamous 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Now, scientists from the California Institute of ...
... – The International Journal of Conservation. Conservation action essential to survival of orangutans, found only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, must be region-specific to address the different ...
The government announced it would expand a national park on the island of Sumatra, which hosts endangered elephants and tigers.
... a bold commitment to protect the remaining forests and critical ecosystems of Sumatra, an Indonesian island that holds some of the world's most diverse - and endangered - forests. The historic ...
All 10 provincial governors of the island of Sumatra agreed to a deal to protect endangered forests, a move that could help control planet-warming emissions.
... A team working on Phra Thong, a barrier island along the hard-hit west coast of ... Aceh, a province at the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra where more than half the deaths from the 2004 ...
... fairly close to the main quake. After the devastating 2004 Sumatra earthquake, triggered quakes even occurred ... Landers, 2002 Denali and 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Islands quakes, the other 12 major quakes ...
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Myanmar's cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta and Indonesia's Sumatra island face high risks of arsenic contamination in groundwater that could cause cancer and other ...
... zone, the Sunda Arc, which extends in the form of an arch from the north western corner of Sumatra to Flores in the east of Indonesia. Should a tsunami occur here, the waves, in an extreme case, will ...
... that the Sunda colugo, found only in Indochina and Sundaland, including the large islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, actually represents at least three separate species.
"We were guessing that we ...