The migratory pest can reach plague proportions. The post New early warning tool to help control devastating locust swarms ...

The UN has said that if an Ethiopian locust infestation is not brought under control then the crop-devouring insect could "invade" neighbouring countries. The Ethiopian government has called for ...

Weather data and state-of the-art computational models have enabled researchers at the University of Cambridge in England to ...

The worst desert locust outbreak in a generation has been decimating crops and other vegetation across the Horn of Africa. Since January, Kenya Ethiopia, and Somalia have been battling to contain the ...

The FAO estimates that about one million people in the country have already been pushed into hunger by the locust infestation. This worries regional experts, who point out that hunger caused by ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The desert locust infestation could be coming under control now. But it has left a trail of destruction, particularly ...

A tool that predicts the behaviour of desert locust populations has been developed to help national agencies manage huge ...

Natural and cultivated vegetation has been threatened by the massive swarms of desert locusts, world’s most dangerous migratory pests. The desert state of Rajasthan has been reeling under a ...

He said that the onset of rains might provide favourable conditions for the locust infestation in the region, thus the need to be prepared. Dr Guleid warned that if countries had not learned from ...

I was quite surprised to learn that the locust infestation in faraway Africa and Japan's unseasonably mild winter shared the same cause. If a disaster can be foretold months in advance ...

Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until ... and put a huge strain on wheat production in those regions. The infestations destroyed sugarcane, sorghum, maize and root crops.