As a result, a large number of people across Madagascar are highly dependent on the island’s ecosystems for their livelihoods ...

Million Years of Separation Madagascar has been isolated from mainland Africa and Asia for more than 80 million years and has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Island reptiles are vanishing fast—but scientists are barely paying attention. Here's why that needs to change.

Madagascar’s cliffs, rolling plateaus, and winding rivers weren’t shaped by a single violent event. Instead, the island’s breathtaking landscape took form through two massive tectonic rifts that ...

Madagascar's military handed over the reins of the island nation to opposition leader Andry Rajoelina on Wednesday, ending a ...