I’m not a sunrise-hike kind of person, but I have to admit this was a spectacular sight to behold in Andringitra National Park. Vanessa Paolella photo When I decided to apply for Peace Corps ...

Pic Boby, the mountain apparently named for Boby, a French botanist's lost dog, the search for which led him to scale the peak and stick a moniker on it. Alamy I've been mentally priming myself to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

UNESCO has listed six rainforest parks in Madagascar as World Heritage sites. The announcement comes as the Indian Ocean island nation has moved aggressively to protect its biologically-rich forests ...