Madagascar witnessed a convergence of calamities this year, from the pandemic to surging forest fires to an unprecedented drought. Despite growing pressures on its forests, new species continue to be ...

Madagascar eased a two-year-old restriction on the domestic sale of stockpiles of so-called ordinary wood — non-precious timber logged from natural forests. The government will not issue any new ...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a recession in 2020 comparable to that of the 2009 political crisis and the reversal of close to a decade of progress in poverty reduction COVID-19 ...

The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar—the long island just off the coast of ...

The World Bank is supporting the government of Madagascar’s ambitious stunting reduction agenda over a ten-year period (2018-2028). In the first two years of implementation, more than 680,000 women ...

ANKILIMAROVAHATSY – “It’s the hunger that killed him,” the grieving mother said. In this village in Madagascar’s extreme south, the 31-year-old Lasinatry lost her 3-year-old boy in June as hunger ...

Tiana Andriamanana was alarmed when she saw the fires swallowing Madagascar’s forests in March. She’d grown used to seeing illegal burns for agricultural expansion, but such widespread blazes so early ...

Climate change is shifting the habitats of endangered species and requiring conservation scientists to think outside traditional park boundaries. A diadem sifaka, a type of lemur, in northern ...

Madagascar-based renewable energy company Filatex commissioned, last week, 44 Solar GEM mobile and portable solar units in the port city of Tulear, in Madagascar. Solar GEM is a plug-and-play, ...