The Java Island's forest area continues to shrink. Consequently, some endemic animals are threatened with extinction.

Sun Microsystems has dropped the mammal and marine-life code names of planned upgrades to the Java platform, renaming the Mustang and Dolphin projects JDK (Java Standard Edition Development Kit) 6 ...

More than 30 whales were stranded on the coast on Indonesia’s main island of Java and 10 of them have died, an official said Thursday.