Amid worldwide concerns over the new coronavirus, an age-old but now "extremely alarming" problem is developing in several countries that represents "an unprecedented threat to food security and ...

On the top floor of a concrete-block building at the beginning of Rome`s Via Appia Antica, six people are staffing an emergency center set up to fight what they believe will be the worst locust plague ...

A Palestinian farmer displays a locust at a farm in Khan Younis the southern Gaza Strip March 5, 2013. Palestinian officials said locusts had not hit Gaza in several decades and numbers of locusts ...

A Palestinian farmer displays a locust at a farm in Khan Younis the southern Gaza Strip March 5, 2013. Palestinian officials said locusts had not hit Gaza in several decades and numbers of locusts ...

Argentina and Brazil are monitoring the movement of a 15-square-kilometer locust swarm in Argentina’s northeast, though authorities and specialists said so far it had not caused significant damage to ...

A cloud of locusts that have already reached crops in Paraguay are currently concentrated in Argentina may enter Brazilian territory, threatening plantations and pastures in the south of the country.

Art and intention — however fatigued these two words are due to overuse — is every artist’s aspiration and Prabhakar Pachpute’s work has finely balanced just that. Prabhakar uses his art — drawings, ...