With the death of a 14-year-old boy from the h5n1 virus in the second week of June, Indonesia's death toll now stands at 39; Vietnam accounts for 43 human deaths since 2003. Earlier, six of seven

The mining sector in Asia has often been characterized more by poor rather than by good environmental management. Thus, "mining and the environment' occupy contested terrain. This article focuses mainly on the small-scale mining sector, with examples drawn from the region.

Researchers have found one of the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Belonging to the Paedocypris genus, the fish (see inset) is just 7.9

Recent landslides and flash floods in Indonesia, which claimed almost 300 lives, have set off a heated debate over logging being a possible cause. Local environmentalists say the disaster exposed

A leak in the pipeline at Indonesia's Arun field in Aceh province led Exxon Mobil, leading us oil company, to cut the flow of gas to the plant. Exxon has reduced the supply to pt Arun ngl,

It is still a common belief that tigers in the wild will eat only creatures that they kill themselves. The first part of this paper gives a review of case histories of scavenging tigers to disprove that false opinion. This knowledge make the management of tigers in the wild easier with the possibility of a carcass-baiting tool and enables to hinder poachers from using the same. The second part of this paper draws attention to related aspects of the man-eating problem. This might be useful for better understanding and further discussions of the matter.

Economy and ecology are once again pitted against each other. Indonesia recently drafted a plan to create the world's largest oil palm plantation in Borneo's Kalimantan region, a venture expected to

The haze in south east Asia, annually triggered by Indonesia's forest fires, acquired an alarming intensity recently

They choose the deep blue sea over the devil (of starvation, in this case), literally. Driven by extreme desperation due to loss of livelihood, tsunami-hit fisherfolk in Indonesia's Banda Aceh area