Tagged: Indonesia

When an ancient volcanic ‘supereruption’ caused sudden cooling, early humans got lucky - Hot off the press

Guest Author • Jul 22, 2021 •

• Climate,
• Indonesia,
• Toba,
• Volcanoes

Ben Black, Rutgers University and Anja Schmidt, University of Cambridge Around 74,000 years ago, a “supereruption” on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, blasted out an estimated 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma. This was the Toba eruption, the largest volcanic eruption of the past 2 million years. To put 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma in perspective, this is more than … Read More

We surveyed Borneo’s orangutans and found 100,000 had ‘disappeared’ - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 19, 2018 •

• Biodiversity,
• Borneo,
• breeding,
• conservation,
• deforestation,
• ecology,
• extinction,
• forests,
• Hunting,
• Indonesia,
• killing,
• Malaysia,
• orangutan,
• poaching,
• prevention,
• rescue

Maria Voigt, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Erik Meijaard, Australian National University, and Serge Wich, Liverpool John Moores University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. “The Big House”, home to the University of Michigan’s American football team, is one of the world’s largest stadiums. Here’s … Read More

The ‘hobbits’ were extinct much earlier than first thought - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 31, 2016 •

• Flores,
• Hobbits,
• Homo floresiensis,
• Indonesia,
• Liang Bua

Thomas Sutikna, University of Wollongong; Matthew Tocheri, Lakehead University, and Richard ‘Bert’ Roberts, University of Wollongong New discoveries at the Indonesian cave site of Liang Bua are changing the way we look at the mysterious Homo floresiensis – known as “hobbits” because of their short stature. We originally believed these hobbits disappeared around … Read More

Indonesian President promotes “sustainable growth with equity” - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • Jun 19, 2012 •

• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• green growth,
• Indonesia,
• Rio20+,
• Sustainability

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gave an impressive speech at the Centre for International Forestry Research last week. How his words translate into the political life of his country I don’t know, but it is hard to fault them as an analysis of the world’s current challenges and a pointer to the direction in which [...] … Read More

Merapi, volcanoes and cooling - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Nov 11, 2010 •

• Climate Science,
• Iceland,
• Indonesia,
• Merapi,
• volcano

Back in April, when Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland was erupting and causing much disruption to air travel in Europe and the North Atlantic, there was some concern that the volcano’s ash and aerosols could cause global cooling. As I said at the time, there was little chance of that happening because volcanoes need to be near [...] … Read More