I thought I’d seen it all in Southeast Asia—tree rats, Komodo dragons, detergent-eating monkeys. Then I landed in Nepal, and everything changed.

Fires have burnt through terrain in Indonesia’s Sumatra and Borneo islands for more than a month, ... The animation below shows how the density of the smoke built up over Southeast Asia as fires ...

The Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, and Java were originally part of a large landmass of rainforests and coastal mangroves in the South Asia continental shelf known as ‘The ...

Some 3,300 square kilometres on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo have gone up in flames. The government has deployed more than 9,000 people and 52 aircraft to fight the fires.

Southeast Asia is home to the third-largest expanse of tropical rainforest in the world, ... Sumatra and Borneo were particularly badly affected, ...

Humans may have exited out of Africa and arrived in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier than ... An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago. Nature, 2017; DOI: 10. ...

Geochronologist Kira Westaway of Macquarie University in Sydney said that, until this recent study, the earliest evidence for modern humans in Southeast Asia came from the Niah caves in Malaysian ...

Nature reserves in large parts of Southeast Asia may be the last strongholds for charismatic ground-feeding birds ... a region comprising the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, ...

Asia is home of 65 percent of the world's Muslims, and Indonesia, in Southeast, is the world's most populous Muslim country. This essay looks at the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and how ...

Part 2 of “The Nirvana Route”: How early encounters between India, China, and Southeast Asia shaped Asian civilization. ... Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, Malacca and the spice islands.

Gibbon. Gibbons are a type of ape ideally suited to swinging through the trees of Southeast Asia’s forests. The word gibbon entered European languages through French in the 18th century.