Indonesia revoked permits on Tuesday for four of the five mining companies operating in the eastern archipelago of Raja Ampat after activists shared videos of islands damaged by nickel extraction. The ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian government announced Tuesday they had suspended four nickel mining operations in Raja Ampat, one of the country’s top tourist destinations for diving and snorkeling ...

Protests from environmental activists and church leaders have compelled the Indonesian government to halt nickel mining at an ecologically sensitive tropical marine hotspot in the Papua region. On ...

In recent years, Indonesia has doubled down on promoting Raja Ampat, a remote archipelago in West Papua famed for its biodiversity, as a global eco-tourism icon. In an effort to do so, the government ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — One of Earth's most biodiverse marine regions is threatened by the expansion of nickel mining projects in Indonesia, according to a new report. Satellite analysis and ...

IT TOOK one plunge to realize that the long trip to get here—48 hours in all—had been worth it. Staring down into the water, I floated above a dizzying variety of corals: Some looked like giant, ...

Five zebra shark pups were born in April, conservationists announced, part of a cohort of 24 hatched this year to restock the wild population in Indonesia’s Raja Ampat archipelago. The ...