The mysteriously rich diversity of life on the isle of Madagascar might have arrived there in part on 'floating islands' carried by ocean currents, researchers now say. Madagascar, the world's fourth ...

Madagascar's landscape tells a story of deep time: ancient rifting and geological tilting sculpted the island's dramatic topography and steered its rivers, setting the stage for the evolution of its ...

Researchers have long known that islands are hotspots for species diversity. But, until recently, there weren't precise figures to quantify the diversity of plant life on islands. A study involving an ...

This video explores how the fossa rose to become the undisputed apex predator of Madagascar. It reveals the creature’s ...

Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a tree in ...

Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who ...

Bates College graduate and former Sun Journal reporter Vanessa Paolella is now a Peace Corps volunteer living in Madagascar. This is the first of a series of columns of what life is like on the unique ...

ANTANANARIVO — Madagascar's interim president, who seized power in the Indian Ocean island nation last month, has unveiled a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The soft-eyed, soft-voiced people of Madagascar speak a liquid language in which there is no word for time. Under French administration, however, most of the Malagasy (as ethnologists call them) have ...

Madagascar is a country still too little known today and yet, in many ways, it is an emblematic victim of contemporary capitalist pillage. Set in the Indian Ocean, the size of France, with a ...