Current Environmental Issues:
Drought- three successive years of failed rain have left the island nation wrestling with crop failure and a chronic lack of food and cleaning water. Agencies are warning last month that nearly 850,000 people are experiencing "alarming" hunger levels.
Flood- a 2015 flood in central Madagascar killed 14 people and forced 24,000 people from their homes, dams around the capital, Antananarivo.
Famine- most recently, food shortages driven by consecutive years of drought could deteriorate into a famine affecting more than a quater million people in Madagascar.
Lack of Resources- Madagascar gets an abundant of water to satisfy the public needs, but the water is unevenly distributed because of the climate. The climate ranges from tropical to temperate and this variation results in the abundance of water in the north and central regions and scarcity in the south.
Abundance of Resources- Some of Madagascar's abundance of resources include graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, mica, fish, hydropower, rare earth metals, semiprecious stones, etc.