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...hard to say how long the indri itself will stay with us. Madagascar's native plants and animals evolved in isolation for some 80 million years; as a result, the 587,000-sq-km country, which sits just off the coast of southeastern Africa, has perhaps the highest level of biodiversity per capita in the world. It's what conservationists call a "hotspot" - one of about 25 places on Earth that have suffered massive habitat loss and account for less than 2% of the planet's land surface, but are home to about half the world's plant species...
...were to ever build a house on the coast, I'm going to contact the guy who built this.' AARON REED, spokesman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, marveling at a lone house that withstood Hurricane...
From 30,000 ft. in the air, the Greenland ice cap seems impregnable, nearly 800 trillion gal. of frozen water locked safely away. But get closer and the cracks begin to emerge. Dancing by helicopter above the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier, near the western coast of Greenland, you can make out veins of the purest blue meltwater running between folds of ice. What you can't see is Jakobshavn's inexorable slide toward the sea at 65 ft. to 115 ft. a day--an alarming rate that has accelerated in recent years. As the glacier nears the coast...
With their endless string of pearl beaches, heavenly climate and sensual bossa nova culture, Brazilians consider themselves uniquely blessed. So when the first of two gigantic oil fields was discovered off the coast near Rio de Janeiro last fall, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva saw it simply as further proof of a celestial bond. "God," Lula gushed, "is Brazilian...
...these are minor squalls in what is otherwise a rather pleasant journey. Sea of Poppies ends somewhere off the coast of Malaya, with the motley crew we met in India now poised to go off in myriad directions. Ghosh is coy about his next act, but speaks keenly of the month he spent researching in Guangzhou - the Canton of old. Could the Opium Wars soon entangle the Ibis? Or will it be a mutiny of disgruntled migrants? Or what about the machinations of a mysterious ex-pirate from Burma's Muslim Rohingya minority, whose betel-stained gums and drooping mustache...