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Madagascar: floods & locust swarms threaten to leave residents hungry
2013-10-18 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Faravavy, 32, lives in the middle of an arid plain 93 miles south of Betioke in southern Madagascar. She tries to support herself and her three children by cultivating maize, red beans and manioc, but is unable to grow enough to generate an income or even feed her family all year round. "We never have any crops to sell," Faravavy says. "We eat everything we produce." During the lean season, which runs from October to March, when new crops are planted but not yet harvested, Faravavy and her youngest...
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Exxon Sonar Surveying Blamed For The Deaths Of 100 Whales Near Madagascar
2013-09-27 07:12:13| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The deaths of 100 melon-headed whales are being blamed on a controversial sonar mapping technique employed by Exxon in 2008.
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Madagascar cools as hotspot for new species evolution
2013-07-23 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Madagascar, a large island in the Indian Ocean, may have only 1 percent of the world's land area, but it has an outsize 3 percent of its species. It is among the most diverse places for life on Earth. But the process that put Madagascar on this list the evolution of new species may have slowed down, a new study suggests. When it comes to the island's impressive biodiversity, "the formation of new species does not seem to be playing as important a role as it (did) in the past," Daniel Scantlebury,...
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Madagascar Gets Grant to Boost Water Supplies for Agriculture
2013-07-10 16:58:36| Agriculture - Topix.net
Madagascar, the island nation off southeast Africa where the main staple is rice, will receive a grant to help support the agriculture industry and assure water supplies.
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MADAGASCAR: SGS sets up new textile testing facility
2013-07-04 13:34:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Inspection, testing and certification company SGS has set up a textile and garments testing laboratory in Madagascar, to service local garment manufacturers wishing to comply with international regulations and requirements.
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