Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists working ...

"They're very destructive when there's a lot of them, but one-on-one, what's not to love?" says Arianne Cease. She's talking ...

Arizona State University scientists are part of an international research team that discovered a simple, soil-based method to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...