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Displaying 380 of about 380 resultsBy Wilhelm de Beer, Associate Professor, University of Pretoria; and Trudy Paap, Postdoctoral Fellow Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria
A tiny tree-killing beetle with the awkwardly long name of Polyphagous Shothole Borer was detected in South Africa for the first time last year. It’s now attac…
By Laura Oprescu
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Pakistan’s Ministry of National Food Security and Research had said the locusts first emerged in January this year from Sudan and Eritrea on Africa’s Red Sea Coast, hit Saudi Arabia and Iran in February, and entered south-western Pakistan in March.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO…
If the outbreak isn't dealt with, larger swarms could devour summer crops and pave the way for more food insecurity, experts say
By Annie Banerji
NEW DELHI, June 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From deploying drones and fire trucks to banging utensils and blaring loud music, India is experimenting with ways to battle a new wave of locust attacks that…
Best known as a vast, cold tundra, Russia's sprawling Siberia region is being transformed by climate change that has brought with it warmer temperatures, forest fires and growing swarms of hungry moth larvae.
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"This winter was the hottest in Siberia since records began 130 years ago," said Marina Makarova, the chief meteorologist at Russia's Rosg…
While the eyes of the world are on the novel coronavirus, East Africa continues to struggle with another crisis of biblical proportions: growing swarms of ravenous locusts. Both crises are extraordinary in scale, and both foes multiply so quickly that governments are struggling to contain them. But times of crisis are also times of i…