Giant palm found on Madagascar flowers itself to death
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Botanists on Thursday announced they had identified a new species of palm that is so enormous it can be spotted from space and whose bizarre life cycle requires the plant to kill itself after it has flowered.
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ANDRINGITRA NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar -- Martin Randriantsoa, a nature guide, stopped at a sacred waterfall and stuck his hand into a cold, clear pool. Underneath a rock, he fished out a Malagasy crayfish, plentiful in these streams, but a species found only on this island nation. He watched the crayfish walk across his palm before releasing it.
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a tree-climbing creature that lived 13 million years ago in what is now northeastern Spain and may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes
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A female Indian rhino and calf have been killed for their horns in Kaziranga National Park, India.
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By Elizabeth Moore, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 13--They were once the largest producers of gardenias in the United States, and later the world's biggest grower of cymbidium orchids.
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AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - In uno dei paesi piÃ¹ poveri del mondo, le Suore Nazarene gestiscono un ospedale e le Suore Francescane hanno costruito una scuola per bambini dove Ã¨ attivo un ambulatorio medico che offre cure mediche di base Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Il Madagascar Ã¨ uno dei pochi paesi nel mondo dove la mortalitÃ  infantile e materna non Ã¨ diminuita negli ultimi anni: la malnutrizione cronica, l'assistenza medica inesistente, le misere condizioni di vita, la mancanza di un a...
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Rumours of our death are in no way ex... Comment Last week we ran an article covering the launch of a new Palm OS emulation environment, and commented that development for Palm OS was grinding to a halt and the platform would soon be forgotten.â¦
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"You can't cut back a genuine palm"  " It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" - " a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth - " faces the ax. via The Toronto Star
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SAN DIEGO - The only captive member of what may be the world&#39;s most endangered species of bird has died in Hawaii, zoo officials announced Tuesday.
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One of Earth&#39;s rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po&#39;ouli. The aging male po&#39;ouli died in captivity
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Record-high palm oil prices due to  voracious global demand for the oil used for food and now  increasingly as a biofuel have left many ordinary Indonesians  without their usual culinary fare.
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Scientists say a type of fruit bat could be the source of a deadly outbreak of Marburg disease in Africa.
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Princess Galyani Vadhana, the elder sister of Thailand's much-loved monarch, dies of cancer at the age of 84.
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BANGKOK: The Thai-American grandson of the country&#39;s king died after giant waves struck the resort areas of southern Thailand, it was announced yesterday.
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For Nusamba Wurintara,  the most prized arabica coffee beans on his plantation are not  those growing on bushes but the ones he finds among the  undergrowth, wedged in the excrement of wild palm civets.
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By Natasha Derrick, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Jun. 15--From a distance, a satellite picture of Madagascar appears to be a spindly octopus with long, rusty red tendrils. Or perhaps it is the sprawling flow of lava from an erupting volcano.
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A giant sequoia believed to be the second-largest tree in the world may not live much longer after suffering damage from heavy snow and strong wind, according to officials at Sequoia National Park.