President Rajoelina’s five-year term, starting in 2019, may be the last chance to avoid habitats and species from going extinct.
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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.
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.
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.
Empowering young women with information in high school can help ensure that certain cancers are caught early.
Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
The influential military is still in a position to veto reforms, making the repeal of repressive laws difficult.
Recognising the role of women in global child slavery is key to addressing it.
The spate of high intensity tropical cyclones making landfall in Southern Africa has been tied to very warm sea surface temperatures.
Modi has had mixed successes in delivering on big promises to transform India’s economy.
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.
The mere presence of NGOs, no matter their size or aims, inadvertently reduced the legitimacy of local village headmen.
Four of the five contemporary migrations in East Africa are severely threatened and have virtually collapsed.
Trump’s embrace of bilateralism in trade relations has pernicious long-term consequences, including ratcheting up the odds of violent conflict.
Let’s rethink the way we understand democracy and tolerance.
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 Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has some sobering news.
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.
Termites have evolved sustainable air conditioning, say scientists.
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.
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