Named by Captain William Mynors on Christmas Day in 1643 as the 'Christmas Island', the island is located in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Australia and south ...

Amazon has stated that it has blocked more than 1,800 North Korean citizens from joining the company since April 2024.

It is a common assumption that mining activities are destroying biodiversity, leaving degraded land and polluting water ...

Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 suspended private sector activity in a crucial high conservation value rainforest as rescuers continued working through three Sumatran provinces following a ...

In the 1960s Indonesia laid claim to West Papua. Despite efforts to control the West Papuan people, it has failed on all aspects of doing so. Indonesia uniliterally annexed the former Dutch colony in ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

Volcanoes are active globally, offering exciting hiking opportunities. Travellers can safely climb Mount Etna in Italy, Cotopaxi in Ecuador, and Pacaya in Guatemala. Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull and ...

Bali, from visiting Tanah Lot and Uluwatu to photogrpahing the sunset, cooking classes and tasting Balinese food.

As the global climate warms and the dry season lengthens, signs of a shift towards a hypertropical climate pattern are ...

Conservation officials have announced the death the first Javan rhino ever translocated as part of Indonesia’s conservation ...

The Oceania region is home to over 20 tarantula species, most of which belong to the Selenocosmiinae sub-family of tarantulas ...