The lizard from Borneo — prized by collectors — would gain federal protections, but some commercial trade could still be ...

By Basten Gokkon In their latest study, a group of researchers from Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. find that heath forests (locally known as kerangas) span 16,586 square kilometers (6,400 square ...

Corals can be used as a proxy: They build themselves in alternating dark and light bands that, like trees, correspond to ...

The forest in Nawan is dense and thriving; bats skim the surface of the Baram River, palm-sized butterflies drift between ...

More information: Walid Naciri et al, Corals Ba/Ca records uncover mid-twentieth century onset of land use change associated with industrial deforestation in Malaysian Borneo, Scientific Reports ...

Mapping analysis of deforestation in palm oil company PT Equator Sumber Rezeki (ESR), part of First Borneo Group, in West Kalimantan. Image courtesy of Mighty Earth.

The number of orangutans on the island of Borneo has more than halved in 16 years, as hunting of the critically endangered species continues and rampant deforestation destroys its habitat ...

The report finds that, although the Heart of Borneo is faring better than the island of Borneo as a whole, 10% or 2 million hectares of the Heart of Borneo forests have still disappeared since the ...

Around half of all orangutans living on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo — nearly 150,000 in all — vanished during a recent 16-year period. The causes included logging, land clearance for ...

Ely Marlina’s 2-year-old child began to cough as the wildfires enveloped Indonesia’s Ketapang district in the summer of 2019. The little one soon fell ill with an acute respiratory tract ...

University of Leicester-led research has revealed the start of industrial deforestation of the Malaysian rainforest and its long-lasting impact on coastal ecosystems in the skeletons of corals ...