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 ...

A study of one of the world's longest-running disaster warning systems—desert locust monitoring—finds surveillance limits damages and generates returns of up to 680 times the investment. The new study ...

"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 about locusts. As the director of Arizona State University's Global Locust ...

Arizona State University PhD student Sydney Millerwise holds a migratory locust in ASU’s Global Locust Initiative lab. A new study by an ASU team and international collaborators identifies a strategy ...

MINSK, 17 February (BelTA) – The government has approved an agreement on cooperation between the CIS countries in preventing the spread of locust pests, the Belarusian government’s press service told ...

Sometimes, what seems like an impending disaster can become an afterthought in the blink of an eye. Surprisingly, it’s often ...

A locust outbreak in South Australia later this year has been described as "unlikely" by experts, but it has not been ruled out. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is forecasting an El Niño event, which ...

On the sidelines of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Antonio Guterres discussed the locust outbreak currently devastating east African nations, reports Bloomberg. “There is a link between ...