A villager was reportedly ripped apart by a crocodile while fishing in a river in Indonesia. Damianus Barus, 54, had set off to catch shrimp in the Lonu River in East Kalimantan, on April 8. He was ...

The killer reptile lurked beneath the surface of the turquoise waters as Sadarwinata, 51, paddled near Talise Beach in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia on March 27.

John Felderhof looks much thinner than when we first met at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in 2010. The weight loss could be from the heat and humidity of the ...

Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate ...

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There’s a whiff of 1998 in the Jakarta air as investors flee Indonesia’s currency and the stock market. The outflows are nowhere near those that toppled then-dictator Suharto. His downfall ...

The Trump administration is opening a national marine monument to commercial fishing, it announced Thursday. The White House issued an executive order that allows for commercial fishing within the ...

For decades, the pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus) has been a primary target for small-scale fishing communities in Alor Archipelago of Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province for ...

Indonesia’s rupiah is trading at record lows against the US dollar, stirring memories of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. While the rupiah has been battered by the market uncertainty stemming ...

Without it, life as we know it would become incredibly primitive in an instant on the way to unrelenting drudgery. To say that oil and its byproducts power us around by train, car and plane goes ...