Even after the ban, illegal sand mining continued but at a lesser rate. Where did the sand go? By and large, Singapore. As Indonesian islands shrank, its tiny but rich neighbour grew. Sea sand from ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rescuers have retrieved two more bodies as they resumed their search for people missing after floods and ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: No matter where you land on Seven Mile Beach, be sure to stop in at woto, a restaurant in the Westin Grand Cayman, for the island's best sushi and some seriously good cocktails.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered ... of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java, officials said Tuesday. Eight people were missing.

Heavy seasonal rain from about October to March frequently causes flooding and landslides in Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near ...

YENAGOA, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Nigerian environmentalists on Tuesday condemned a government plan to resume oil production in the restive Ogoniland, demanding a halt until meaningful talks with local ...

Wading through the colorful coves and granite boulders of The Baths in Virgin Gorda is undeniably the most notable experience you can have in the British Virgin Islands. Travelers and experts ...

The Indonesian city is home to some of the greatest Hindu and Buddhist temples, a thriving food scene and an area known as the Cosmological Axis, a cradle of Javanese culture. Borobudur temple ...

at the tip of the vast island of Sumatra where the Indian Ocean meets the Pacific. Pulau Weh has a wonderful range of diving, from small critter diving to larger pelagics. It’s not as well travelled ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

As of 2022, around 700,000 people were living on Halmahera island, according to official data. Indonesia, a vast archipelago, experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity as it lies along ...