The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it ...

A NEW city has just muscled its way to the top of the global population charts with 42 million inhabitants. The leader of the ...

The coastline of Jakarta, Indonesia is sinking, with the sea level at Pantai Mutiara in North Jakarta higher than the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of measures to prevent its capital city of Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate. The project will require three ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is leaving, and moving the country’s capital to the island of ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from sinking under ...

Decades of uncontrolled and excessive depletion of groundwater reserves, rising sea-levels, and increasingly volatile weather patterns mean swathes of Jakarta have already started to disappear. [AFP] ...

The number of cities with populations in the millions worldwide continues to rise, according to the latest “World ...

Indonesia has announced plans to build a new capital city as its current capital, Jakarta, struggles with pollution, traffic gridlock — and the fact that the city is sinking. After a Cabinet meeting ...

STORY: Ecotourists in Indonesia are discovering the benefits of mangroves as the country pushes to conserve and replant coastal areas that have been decimated by human activity. Mangroves are vital ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from sinking under ...

Jakarta is the world's second-largest city and the capital of Indonesia, but it is sinking into the sea. This is the race to ...