Swarms of desert locusts have been blanketing East Africa for months — ravaging crops and potentially threatening the livelihoods of 10 percent of the world’s population, experts are warning. An ...

They're swarming in gargantuan numbers in parts of Africa and South Asia — and posing a major threat to the food supply. If you have questions... Titanic swarms of desert locusts resembling dark storm ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado may be dealing with record heat, wildfire haze and a pandemic in August 2020. At least it doesn’t have locusts. In August 1875, a locust plague was ...

2020 is determined to be a year to remember. On top of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the worst locust outbreak seen in over 70 years threatens food security for almost 5 million people in Africa. The ...

WASHINGTON – Scientists have identified a chemical compound released by locusts that causes them to swarm, opening the door to possible new ways to prevent these insects from devouring crops vital to ...

The year 2020 may be one for the record books in terms of apocalyptic tidings. In addition to the usual background of fires, floods, and earthquakes, the plague is still around. And you might have ...

IN SOME PARTS of the world, covid-19 is not the only plague that 2020 has brought. In parts of Asia and east Africa, swarms of locusts have stripped fields. The UN reckons the swarms in India and ...

Not too long ago, before digital camera phones made photos all too commonplace, we used to savor “Kodak moments”, which TechCrunch calls “a rare, one-time moment that is captured by a picture, or ...

Bomb-sniffing “cyborg locusts” could be the next wave in national security, according to military news agency Stars and Stripes. Washington University researchers, funded by the U.S. Navy, reportedly ...

Research has determined that locusts can smell explosives and determine where the smells originated -- an important step in engineering cyborg bomb-sniffing locusts. If you want to enhance a locust to ...

Bomb-sniffing “cyborg locusts” could be the next wave in national security, according to military news agency Stars and Stripes. Washington University researchers, funded by the U.S. Navy, reportedly ...