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When the Little House on the Prairie Met Disaster

Life on Plum Creek that June of 1875 looked bright as a new penny to Charles Ingalls, his wife Caroline, and their three young daughters. For months, the family had ...

January 15, 2023BY Jeff Minick

Sardinian Farmers Suffer Worst Locust Invasion in Over 30 Years

MILAN—When farmer Rita Tolu saw "a big black wave storming across the horizon and taking over the fields" ...

July 14, 2022BY Reuters

China in Focus (July 31): Passport Control May Lock Whistleblowers Inside China

Bamboo locusts hit China. This year the flying insect swarms are "starting early" and are "frequent and numerous." ...

July 31, 2020BY NTD Television

Disasters Rage Across China, Affecting 10s of Millions

China, still grappling with the CCP virus pandemic, has been hit with wave after wave of natural disasters. ...

July 7, 2020BY Eva Fu

East Africa’s Locust Outbreak Is Far From Over

NAIROBI, Kenya—The crunch of young locusts comes with nearly every step. The worst outbreak of the voracious insects ...

July 6, 2020BY The Associated Press

Argentina, Brazil Monitor Massive Locust Swarm; Crop Damage Seen Limited

BUENOS AIRES/SAO PAULO—Argentina and Brazil are monitoring the movement of a 15-square-kilometer locust swarm in Argentina's northeast, though ...

June 25, 2020BY Reuters

Africa Locust Invasion Spreading, May Become ‘Devastating Plague,’ UN Warns

A United Nations official warned that an outbreak of tens of millions of locusts is spreading throughout East ...

February 11, 2020BY Jack Phillips

Spray Planes Combat Huge Locust Swarms in East Africa

NASUULU CONSERVANCY, Kenya—As locusts by the billions—yes, billions—descend on parts of Kenya in the worst outbreak in 70 ...

February 2, 2020BY The Associated Press

‘We Are Walking on Locust Carpets’: Plague of Locusts Destroy Crops in Italy

Swarms of locusts have destroyed crops and infested houses on the Italian island of Sardinia in the worst ...

June 13, 2019BY Jack Phillips