This story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... 2015 this forest growing on peatland on the island of Borneo was burned to clear the land for oil palms.

Only during the past 20 years or so has scientific evidence begun to outweigh speculation as a new generation of researchers has tracked the elusive apes across the islands of Borneo and Sumatra ...

Up until the 1990s, Malaysian geography books proudly declared Mount Kinabalu as the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. Standing at an impressive 4,095 meters, this majestic granite peak has long ...