How climate change contributed to Madagascar’s food crisis

Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world’s first climate change famine. Tens of thousands of people are suffering catastrophic …

Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm

Conserving biodiversity 'hotspots' like Madagascar doesn't mean leaving out coldspots

Water, Africa’s Gold: Climate change, deforestation behind Madagascar’s water scarcity

Madagascar, though blessed with abundant water, has recently undergone a change in its hydrological cycle, due to global warming, leading to …

Madagascar emerges as hotspot for endangered whale sharks

85 juvenile sharks visited various spots of the island nation’s coast in a single season, says study

Climate change: Southeastern Africa stares at future with extreme rainfall, floods

Lack of weather data is an obstacle to quantifying the climate link in the region

Europe to US to India, it’s been a week of extreme weather events

At least 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania and Africa have been hit by the extreme natural disasters 

This Indian Ocean snail species may be first victim of deep-sea mining

The scaly-foot snail, found at only three spots on the Indian Ocean floor near Madagascar, has been included in the updated IUCN Red List

Long live Freddy: Cyclone which travelled across Indian Ocean, has survived for 32 days courtesy climate change

Warming due to human-induced greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans, increasing their heat content; this helps strengthen cyclones

Plague kills 40 in Africa’s Madagascar, El Nino blamed

High level of resistance to deltamethrin, an insecticide used to control fleas, has complicated the problem

The road ahead

India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of …

Global warning: Upsurge of plague in Congo

World human plague cases lowest in 30 years, but WHO warns it remains a particularly “formidable epidemic disease”  

Land grab fallout

Scramble to buy land in foreign countries to grow more food leaves more people hungry

Road map to save environment

A global map highlights regions where road construction will have high environmental costs