Mapping Madagascar

The animated movie of the same name portrayed the island with party-loving lemurs, a naive zebra, and a lion undergoing identity crisis. With the rich biodiversity of the island, the issue that is raised is which areas to protect. Experts leave the answer to a computer, which should be able to pinpoint the upper 10% priority area, inclusive of the biodiversity of the species and the diversity of their respective required habitats.

Read the full article at the BBC website.

It may not be the kind where you can watch the animated film through video-straming, but this is what I call an extensive hotspot coverage!

BBC reports global temperatures 'to decrease'

I wonder how this report from BBC News fits into the model of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These kinds of phenomena undermine the accuracy of models, like the one used to forecast climate change and temperature. I hope El Nino and El Nina are not reduced to lowly dummy variables.