Welcome to jungle school—where orphaned orangutans are learning the basics for survival that they will need for life in the ...

For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense ...

Scientists have been studying the recent wave of deadly storms that devastated Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

The immediate threat from Sumatra’s floods and landslides may be over, but for many survivors the ordeal is only just ...

Tropical Cyclone Senyar devastated large parts of South-east Asia after forming in the Malacca Strait, killing nearly 1,200. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...

Activists said decades of deforestation — driven by mining, palm oil plantations and illegal logging — have stripped away natural defenses that once absorbed rainfall and stabilized soil.

The death toll from last week's catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 on Thursday as rescue ...

Indonesia's government says it will summon eight companies over their suspected role in worsening the scale of floods and landslides in Sumatra. But environmental groups say the government is ...

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Across southeast Asia, crews are racing to rescue survivors stranded by torrential rain and flooding. Hardest hit is Indonesia, where nearly 800 people have died on the island of Sumatra alone. Rescue ...

Many logs became forces of destruction in Indonesia last week, in a sign that deforestation compounded the devastation wrought by a cyclone. Many logs became forces of destruction in Indonesia last ...