It was the case of one good story leading to another. After its shocking report Jan. 25 on the locust swarms devastating agriculture in Kenya,AP’s Nairobi team came through with another truly striking ...

And they're devastating crops in East Africa, where millions ... starve and die because these locusts are everywhere and are taking over the whole area." A swarm can eat enough food to feed ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A plague of locusts considered “extremely alarming” is headed toward Africa and the Middle East but is likely to bypass Israel. The locusts are breeding and forming new ...

There's a good reason locusts are considered plague-worthy ... "Dust Bowl" of the 1930s and caused massive hardship in East Africa from 2019 to 2020 — perhaps the authors of the Exodus were ...

In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, a Samburu boy uses a wooden stick to try to swat a swarm of ... outbreak of desert locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa and posing ...

Mark Goldberg: (00:31) Desert locusts are eating their way through East Africa on a scale not seen in decades. These are migratory pests that under the right conditions can reproduce quickly and form ...

Two Samburu men who work for a county disaster team identifying the location of the locusts are surrounded ... to the deadly invasion that has left East Africa dealing with a threat that had ...

“Our staff in Kenya are battling swarms so thick they can barely see through them,” said Ian Vale, Save the Children’s regional director for East and Southern Africa. 4. Locust swarms as large as ...

Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops ... World Bank estimates—based on projections issued by FAO in March 2020--show that in East Africa and Yemen alone, damages and losses could amount to as much ...

Larger locust outbreaks are a risk of more erratic weather, scientists warn - A team of scientists says extreme wind and rain ...

Chinese factories are producing thousands of tonnes of a "green zombie fungus" to help fight the swarms of locusts plaguing east Africa. Metarhizium is a genus of fungi with nearly 50 species ...