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 ...
After months of building, the biggest locust swarm recorded in 70 years swept across 10 countries in East Africa in spring ...
The crop-devouring pests love arid conditions and the occasional downpour. Global warming is offering more of both. By Raymond Zhong Rising temperatures could expand the area of the globe under threat ...
The Horn of Africa, one of the world's most impoverished regions, is being ransacked by billions of tiny invaders. Farmers look on in horror as desert locusts moving in vast cloud-like swarms darken ...
India is bracing itself for a growing assault on its western front, with droves of intruders flying in from Pakistan. While the first reports of the current cycle of desert locusts came last month, ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is likely to import insecticides from arch-rival India to brace itself for any locust attacks this summer, bypassing a ban on trade between the neighbouring nations. A ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Residents of Tenges ward in Baringo Central chase away a swarm of locusts which had ...
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