It’s been a tough year around the world. When it seemed like things couldn’t get any worse, locust swarms started making headlines for wreaking havoc in East Africa, the Middle East and India. For ...
On Jan. 24, the James Beard Foundation's Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalist list was announced. In the running for Best Chef Southeast? Trevor Moran of Nashville's Locust. One week after that ...
Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists working ...
In 1937, aboard slowly-moving trains, the Army National Guard used flamethrowers in an attempt to quell a relentless plague of locusts crossing through Colorado. But the flamethrowers failed. And so ...
Editor’s note: This article is part of The Changemakers series, focusing on the behind-the-scenes executives and people fueling the future growth of their sports. All Joe Headen could hear was yelling ...
Locusts descended upon East Africa in January. The next month, a swarm blanketed a huge Kenyan lakeshore, transforming the ground into buzzing, yellow fields. Now in May, the locust outbreak isn't ...
Billions of locusts have been swarming throughout eastern Africa for months, ravaging crops and threatening the food source for millions of people in the region. Thankfully, NASA's Earth-observing ...
As global warming accelerates, scientists say it’s more important than ever to understand how climate extremes such as heatwaves, droughts and extreme rains affect locust outbreaks that can destroy ...
NOAA is lending technical support to the United Nations in its battle against a massive locust infestation that’s spread from Africa into the Middle East and Asia. NOAA’s assistance is helping ...
The problem has been building for some time given the peculiarities of the carob supply chain (it takes years for trees to become productive, while attempts to establish new plantations have delivered ...
Picture swirling snow as far as the eye can see — in the middle of summer. Now, imagine this blizzard of flakes transforming into a swarm of locusts. This isn’t just any swarm, but the largest ...