Sunset at Madagascar’s avenue of the baobabs in Morondavo.
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President Rajoelina’s five-year term, starting in 2019, may be the last chance to avoid habitats and species from going extinct.
Edwards’s pheasants (Lophura edwardsi ) are a wild relative of domesticated chickens.
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Biodiversity is in crisis. Nowhere is this more serious than among the wild species which our livestock and crops descend from.
Halima Aden, the first Muslim model to wear a hijab and burkini on the cover of the swimsuit edition of the Sports Illustrated.
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Hijab-wearing model Halima Aden will be featured in Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit edition. Here’s why her success needs to be viewed in context of a long history of black Muslim women’s fashions.
Macquarie Island. Subantarcic bedstraw was likely dispersed by sea birds who travelled across vast seas.
This small herb hadn’t been seen on Macquarie Island since it was first recorded in 1983, despite several searches over the next 30 years.
Kenyan schoolgirls looking at a friend who is getting vaccinated against HPV which causes cervical cancer.
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Empowering young women with information in high school can help ensure that certain cancers are caught early.
Oromo children saved from slavery.
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Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
Reuters reporters Wa Lone (left) and Kyaw Soe Oo, leaving prison in Myanmar on Tuesday.
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The influential military is still in a position to veto reforms, making the repeal of repressive laws difficult.
A woman walks along a street in Port-au-Prince's wealthiest district, Petionville. © Fiona de Hoog
Recognising the role of women in global child slavery is key to addressing it.
An aerial view of the damage from flood waters after tropical cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique’s Sofala province.
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The spate of high intensity tropical cyclones making landfall in Southern Africa has been tied to very warm sea surface temperatures.
India’s new ₹2,000 note.
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Modi has had mixed successes in delivering on big promises to transform India’s economy.
‘Is he here yet?’
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As former director of the US Information Agency, Edward R. Murrow, once put it, presidential travel should be treated as a ‘weapon’ to influence popular opinion.
Malawian villages operate according to strict hierarchies. NGOs can unsettle these.
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The mere presence of NGOs, no matter their size or aims, inadvertently reduced the legitimacy of local village headmen.
White-bearded wildebeest migrate through the Mara.
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Four of the five contemporary migrations in East Africa are severely threatened and have virtually collapsed.
Who will blink first?
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Trump’s embrace of bilateralism in trade relations has pernicious long-term consequences, including ratcheting up the odds of violent conflict.
Democracy can still perform in Indonesia despite the absence of tolerance. Fifteen years after the Acehnese tsunami, various religious people visited mass graves built by Muslims in 2018.
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Let’s rethink the way we understand democracy and tolerance.
Soon, this farmer and her goats could be treated with the same vaccine.
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Rift Valley Fever infects millions of humans and livestock in Africa and Arabia. To fight it, scientists are developing a first of its kind vaccine that can be used on humans and animals.
The exploitation of the land and sea is the number one reason for biodiversity extinction, according to a new report.
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The Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has some sobering news.
Protesters in Sudan demanding the end of military rule.
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The immediate cause of the economic crisis that brought many thousands of Sudanese onto the streets and continued beyond al-Bashir’s downfall lay in the structure of the economy itself.
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Termites have evolved sustainable air conditioning, say scientists.
Visitors and performers at Brazil’s ‘Confederate Party,’ held each April in São Paulo state.
Jordan Brasher
The Confederate flag debate has arrived to Brazil, pitting black activists against the Brazilian descendants of soldiers who fled the South after the Civil War.