Madagascar: A Spectacular Last Hurrah
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A species of self-destructing palm trees that flower once every 100 years and then die has been discovered in Madagascar.
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At the end of the very long Metallica documentary &quot;Some Kind of Monster,&quot; the venerable heavy metal band reaches what is -- to its members -- a monumental conclusion.
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It's one of the few countries that still has vast swathes of tropical rainforests left.
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A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine.
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The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar voted peacefully on Sunday in an election expected to return dairy tycoon Marc Ravalomanana to a second term as president of one of the world's poorest countries.
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Travel: Roger Deakin's tree-inspired travelogue is a magical and meditative final work, says Rory MacLean.
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KOLKATA: Weeks of suspense, a final day packed with drama, and in the best potboiler tradition, it all boiled down to the last few moments.
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Madagascar's Marc Ravalomanana is re-elected as president of the Indian Ocean island country.
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Fans of The Lord of the Rings may be interested to know that a remote Indonesian island has yielded the remains of pint-size people - a surprising new human species â-hat paleontologists say lived just 18,000 years ago.
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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It started as a simple family picnic in the outback of Madagascar, off Africa's southeast coast. Xavier and Nathalie Metz, local cashew farmers, stared in disbelief at a 30-foot-tall mass of flowers and fruits sprouting gloriously from the top of a 30-foot-tall palm tree.
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TOAMASINA, Madagascar  - Madagascar closed an airport in the eastern town of Toamasina on Saturday to stop an exiled opposition leader from returning home to beat a deadline to register for a presidential election.
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Madagascar has identified the additional forests, wetlands and marshes it wants to protect under a plan to triple the size of its nature reserves by the end of 2008, a global conservation group said on Friday.
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Go in the field with biologists studying how lemurs are coping with habitat loss, and meet the unusual creature they encounter that could be a new primate species.
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With a clash of mallets and the stomping of jumbo feet that shook the earth, the game was under way. Tense commands were shouted by pith helmeted players tied firmly to their two-ton mounts. The beasts collided and the ball disappeared in a forest of elephantine legs, raising some dust and much laughter. We had just witnessed a classic scrum in the whacky sport of elephant polo.
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A FORTNIGHT ago University of Wollongong scientist Bert Roberts was on the Indonesian island of Flores with stegodon expert Gert van den Bergh.
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There may be something almost nostalgic in our celebration of a âheroic explorer.â