As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bodies and sends them on a ravenous flight through farmland. Pilot Kieran Allen ...

Chlorpyrifos, teflubenzuron, or deltamethrin: these are the barbaric names of the chemicals, which are the tools of battle to stem the locust invasion plaguing East Africa. On Monday, the Kenyan ...

A swarm of desert locusts following a poor harvest season has added to fears about a lack of food for millions in Kenya, as the country grapples with the effects of COVID-19. The desert locusts—in the ...

Desperate farmers in Kenya are beating drums and burning pepper in frantic attempts to protect their crops and pastures from enormous swarms of ravenous desert locusts, some blanketing as much as ...

Kenya on Monday announced it has finally managed to contain the locust invasion that had rocked the East African country. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Kenya tweeted that only Samburu ...

KATITIKA, Kenya -- The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insects ...

With Kenya undergoing its worst locust plague in 70 years, one company is empowering local communities to come up with sustainable solutions. Swarms of locusts flocked to Kenya in late 2019, after a ...

As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bodies and sends them on a ravenous flight through farmland. Pilot Kieran Allen ...