Permits revoked, lawsuits filed, the threat of state takeovers.Several dozen companies have had their permits revoked, and ...

"Needs to be pulled back." Officials seek more than $200 million in damages after deadly disaster: 'Must be held fully responsible' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its northern parts, took the worst hit. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

PADANG, Indonesia(AP) — The death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the disaster ...

In Sumatra, decades of damaging forest governance decisions degraded landscapes, turning heavy rain into catastrophe.

Sumatra contains some of the largest tracts of intact rainforest left in the world, and is also at the center of a complicated web of deforestation drivers, many of which began during the Dutch ...

Heavy monsoon rains across Southeast Asia in recent weeks have turned Sumatra, Indonesia’s westernmost island, into one of the hardest-hit areas, in a recurring natural disaster that appears to be ...

For decades, efforts to halt deforestation in the Global South have gained much attention within the policy arena, most recently as a powerful and effective measure to mitigate climate change and ...