A nonprofit environmental group working with primates in Sebangau National Park says the dry peatlands can be a catalyst to ...

Fires burning within rainforests that contain more than half of the world’s critically endangered Bornean orangutan ...

Thick smoke from forest fires has disrupted airline flights for several days in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province as an intensifying El Niño weather pattern and a prolonged dry season worsen the im ...

KETAPANG, Indonesia, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The sky over Indonesia's Borneo island is orange and heavy with smoke as a result of the country's worst wildfires in more than a decade, which have left ...

Residents of Borneo are enduring a severe water crisis after three months without rain. The Kapuas River has receded to a muddy trickle, forcing families to buy water for drinking and cooking.

(Fix spelling of name in byline to 'Gunawan' from 'Goenawan'. No change in text) By Johan Purnomo and Soepriyadi Gunawan PONTIANAK, Indonesia, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Indonesian housewife Mimi Marlina ...

Borneo (Kalimantan) is the third largest island in the world. Borneo's rain forests are also home to some extremely rare species of orchids, all highly valued for their exotic aromas and aesthetic ...

Borneo, the third largest island in the world, was once covered with dense rainforests. In the 1980s and 1990s Borneo underwent a remarkable transition. Its forests were leveled at a rate unparalleled ...

The cows are afloat, with squawking chickens sharing their sturdy bamboo rafts. Children splash and swim in and around their homes, keeping away from the deeper channel of peat-coloured water that ...