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Wikiteny, an interactive workshop, was born of a collaboration between Wikipedia and Global Voices, gathered students, ...
In the forests of Madagascar, small lizards do more than sunbathe on rocks or snap at insects. In fact, they may be shaping ...
The monstrous terror bird once roamed the earth, but it didn't manage to survive into the modern day. If it did, though, the ...
WordTips examined both the de facto and de jure official languages of every country and overseas territory in the world, and totaled up the number of times each one was listed. English came out on top ...
Madagascar’s wealth of baobabs is due, in part, to its diverse geography. The island, comparable in size to California or Sweden, has wide ranges in elevation, and networks of impassable rivers ...
Madagascar, 250 miles off the coast of Mozambique ... surrounding vegetation was regularly set on fire, for zebu grazing. Geography apparently offered the forest some protection.
It is one of those islands that suffer from remoteness, geography playing cruelly against ... repertoires have occupied a small niche of "Madagascar music" internationally, while YouTube and ...
Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island ... live in the east as opposed to the west coast? Well, the island's geography certainly helps explain it! Denmark summons US ambassador over ...
A series of 35 circular niches excavated in the rock at Teniky, Madagascar. Credit: G. Schreurs et al. An international team of researchers has made a surprising archaeological discovery in the heart ...
(Madagascar ranks 161 in the world in human ... Xiaojun Yang, professor of geography at Florida State University, whose research interests are remote sensing and land change science, and his ...
ALTHOUGH Madagascar is known to be the third largest island in the world, its actual size and extent is not very generally understood. It is easy to see how misconception on this point arises ...
"Saurashtra Basin was formed by the separation of India from Madagascar about 100 million years ago. Before the separation, India, Madagascar and the Seychelles were joined together. After the ...