Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops ... upending livelihoods and requiring substantial resources to address. The economic, human, and environmental impacts of the current locust plague are ...

This time, they obtained exclusive coverage of the next wave of young locusts now bulking up in Somalia’s desert. Officials in charge of the United Nations’ response to the locust outbreak couldn’t ...

Amanda Bensen, Kenneth R. Fletcher, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino and Jesse Rhodes Observed Name: Schistocerca gregaria, or the desert locust. What's Ancient: Plagues—or what scientists call mass ...

Pakistan is a frontline country for desert locust due to its two distinct seasons. During spring they are found in Balochistan while they spend the summer in Sindh and Punjab — along the Indian ...

ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Desert locust swarms have been detected in five regions and one city administration across Ethiopia, an official said Saturday. Speaking at a press conference to ...

The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel spread to North Africa during February and March, said a statement from the FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Western Region ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...