The desert locust invasion in Somalia has significantly affected the country’s food security, with successive generations of swarms destroying vital crops and pastures. Compounding the situation were ...

A resident of Tenges in Baringo Central tackles locusts last year. At least 20 counties have been invaded by the desert locusts. [File, Standard] Kenya is under pressure to avert a full-scale desert ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Kenya may have ducked a major food security crisis this year following the invasion of the ...

Extreme wind and rain may lead to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks, with human-caused climate change likely to intensify the weather patterns and cause higher outbreak risks, a new study has ...

Swarms of locusts in Ethiopia have damaged 200,000 hectares (half a million acres) of cropland and driven around a million people to require emergency food aid, the United Nations said Monday. Ancient ...

Locust outbreaks, which cause considerable crop losses, affect a quarter of the world’s population today. In a recent paper, scientists predict the situation will worsen with climate change, and they ...

The ruling bolsters efforts by Republican-led states to deprive the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider of public money.