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...primary driver of extinction on Madagascar. The trees support a web of life, from the hefty indri to dazzlingly tiny frogs that fit on your pinky, but deforestation in Madagascar is so severe that the island's soil, unmoored by the loss of the trees, simply slides into the sea. The crimson trail of erosion has been visible from space...
...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, it breaks off into the Ilulissat fjord, a stream of churning ice that might have birthed the monster that sunk the Titanic. Those icebergs are spat out into Disko...
...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...
...squads guided by collaborators was three times that. Bangladesh sits atop an alluvial plain, so those bent on genocide needed only to dump bodies in rivers or, as at the Jalladkhana, down the wells and conduits of local water-pumping stations, where corpses were literally flushed away into the sea. "These are crimes so horrible that even God wouldn't forgive you," says K.M. Safiullah, a retired general who led the independence war effort. "There cannot be unity without this being solved...
...doubts that Malaysian politics are about to undergo a sea change. The only questions are when and how - and those are big questions in a country that is trying to secure its status as a model Muslim-majority democracy. Will Anwar - a man who once served as deputy prime minister until he had a political falling-out with his mentor and spent six years in jail - be able to bring down a ruling coalition that has governed Malaysia since independence? Or will Najib - the current deputy premier whose reputation has been tainted by the murder trial of his former advisor...