Excessive land use and the felling of trees have seen a decline in the lake's water levels and disturb its equilibrium The photo shows areas near Lake Toba that have been cleared of trees after a wood ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. From a hillside overlooking Lake Toba, the vast volcanic basin at ...

Catholic and Protestant groups in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province are supporting indigenous tribal people in their decades old battle to reclaim land from a pulpwood company. On Sept. 9, Catholic ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...