Malavika Vyawahare is a science and environmental journalist and Columbia University graduate who currently shuttles between Réunion Island and Madagascar.
These temperature rises can also lead to local extinction of the native species living in those regions.
The country's president has a poor environmental record, raising concerns over the preservation of Madagascar's iconic biodiversity.
But the results are not so rosy for the critically endangered hawksbill turtle.
Even under moderate warming, Alpine glaciers would shed two-thirds of their present mass by the end of the century.