‘As a form of punishment’: 8-year-old forced to repeatedly jump on 110-degree trampoline without water until she died of dehydration
A father in Texas has admitted to killing his 8-year-old daughter with his wife by forcing the girl to jump repeatedly on a ...
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Swarms of locusts have destroyed 170,000 acres of crops in East Africa — and local farmers are nearly helpless to stop it
Watch the full episode here. Locusts have huge appetites. One of these insects can eat its own weight in food in a single day. And they're devastating crops in East Africa, where millions of ...
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AP Exclusive: Locusts swarm East Africa as a new wave forms in the Somali desert
It was the case of one good story leading to another. After its shocking report Jan. 25 on the locust swarms devastating agriculture in Kenya,AP’s Nairobi team came through with another truly striking ...
The New Yorker26d
A Mild Attack of Locusts
One does not look so much at the sky in the city. So that evening, when Richard said, “The government is sending out warnings that locusts are expected, coming down from the breeding grounds up ...
Max Planck Society18d
Rewriting the rules of locust swarms
Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the livelihood of one in ten people due to their impact on food security.
Nature5y
Serotonin triggers swarming in locusts
Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) are normally solitary insects, but in crowded conditions, they undergo physical and behavioral changes and become 'gregarious', clustering in swarms that can ...
Save the Children4y
10 Things to Know About the Locust Plague
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 ...