As Genessa Patterson read names of black soldiers buried inside Locust Hill African American Cemetery, members of her JROTC organization pushed flags into the earth as markers of memorialization. At ...

TRENTON — To call it a passion project is underselling it. Algernon Ward speaks about the Locust Hill African Cemetery and Museum with the beaming pride of a loving parent. As a historian and ...

The worst locust swarms in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province in 25 years (occurring in May 2022) is in the past. But the millions of eggs laid by the insects could hatch this September, the ...

NAIROBI — Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth of vegetation, and rising temperatures since February 2025 ...

In May 2022, the largest locust infestation in a quarter century descended on South Africa’s Eastern Cape, stripping 19,305 square miles of grazing land. With another swarm predicted for September ...

A data scientist from Mali is part of a team using machine learning to help forecast —and hopefully prevent — devastating locust swarms in West Africa's Sahel region. During West Africa's last major ...

In this remote village about 200 miles east of Nairobi, residents – some Catholics – were fearing a new wave of desert locusts, as millions of eggs the insects laid earlier began to hatch. Under the ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

The West African locust looks nothing like what Westerners might consider a vegetable plant to be. It is a tree. A true Jack-and-the-beanstalk kind of crop, it is indeed related to beans, albeit ...