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On Our Radar: Madagascar’s Biodiversity

A gray bamboo lemur in Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in Madagascar. Robin Hammond for The New York TimesA gray bamboo lemur in Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in Madagascar. 

Why are so many species almost entirely limited to Madagascar? Scientists hypothesize that some animals arrived there on floating islands carried by ocean currents after plate tectonics separated Madagascar from Africa and other continents. [LiveScience]

The government of Belize bans the harvesting and export of rosewood in response to widespread clearing of trees for the Asian market. The logging has been particularly controversial because much of the rosewood is located on land in southern Belize that courts say belongs to Maya villages, a judgment that the government is appealing. []

The drilling method known as horizontal hydraulic fracturing affects air quality, particularly during the phase when the natural gas wells are being built, and can contribute to chronic or acute health problems, researchers report. [EurekAlert]

A ride in a plug-in hybrid supercar. [Wired]

Plight of the Lemur: A Movie

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On Our Radar: A Climate Change App

The climate wars hit the iPhone. [The Guardian]

Illegal loggers plunder Madagascar’s rosewood forests in the wake of a military coup. [BBC]

China will soon unveil a $739 billion alternative energy plan, a Chinese economic journal reports; it is to include nuclear, wind, solar, biomass and clean coal. [Reuters]

Japan looks to carbon-offsetting projects in developing countries to meet aggressive emissions reduction goals. [Reuters]

Flash floods hit Central Europe, inundating towns in Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. [Reuters]

A Plea for Plundered Rosewood

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Madagascar’s Wood Exports Stir Debate










The containers were valued at $650,000.

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