Malaya garnets from Bekily, Madagascar, are predominantly pink to pinkish orange, with some stones orange to red. Discovered only in the late 1990s, the majority are intermediate members of the pyrope ...

This legal technicality allows Air Madagascar to fly passengers on its aircraft to Paris despite being on frosty terms with the French civil aviation authorities for months. The already chilly ...

In January 2012, aquamarine crystals containing interesting inclusions were extracted from the Ambatofotsikely area northwest of Antsirabe, Madagascar. These specimens displayed various types of ...

And the area is mind-blowing: 85 square miles of wilderness; six ecosystems, from incredible tsingy—that unreal landscape of limestone towers sometimes referred to as “stone forest”—to ...

Madagascar is not just another tropical island ... It is like going on an excursion to an other world to explore this "forest ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises ...

The gem was first discovered in 1902 in Madagascar and named after the French explorer, Alfred Grandidier, who wrote about the island’s natural history and geography. Translucent and transparent ...

Kidney stones are pebble-sized deposits that form when there’s too much salt and minerals in your urine. Learn whether men or women are more at risk, what passing one feels like, and how big ...

World-acclaimed gems explorer and human rights activist Yianni Melas has been budded the modern-day Indiana Jones of gems.

Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.

This undated handout photo provided by the Turtle Survival Alliance shows staff members and volunteers rescuing some of the thousands of endangered tortoises that were washed away from the ...

Disco Afrika brings to life issues that hit close to home -- land grabbing, political protests, extrajudicial killings, and ...