The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. A stock-taking of where stand on reducing hunger and malnutrition shows that progress in hunger reduction at the global level and in many countries has continued but that substantial additional effort is needed in others.

A study published in Nature presents a 'global roadmap' for prioritising road building across the planet and balancing development with nature conservation.

Undated handout photo issued by International Union for Conservation of Nature of an adult Indri, a type of lemur which is threatened with extinction, according to the latest global assessment of a

Kenyan customs officials seized dozens of shipping containers holding hundreds of tonnes of illegally logged rosewood from Madagascar, they said on Wednesday, the largest bust of its kind and worth

Technology giant Microsoft has bought the first carbon credits generated under a rainforest conservation project in Madagascar, reports Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which organized and back

At least 20 people in one village in Madagascar have died in an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

Loss of forest cover increased sharply in Bolivia, Madagascar, and Ecuador during the third quarter of 2013, according to an update from NASA scientists.

New research suggests that extreme weather events will keep people poor in many parts of the world.

Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, experts have warned.

An island that broke up from the Indian subcontinent tens of millions of years ago, Madagascar may be the most unique place on the planet, home to rainforests and deserts and beaches, as well as co

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