About 400 million people could be at risk for flooding by the end of the century should the Greenland ice shelf continue to melt at its current pace, according to a new study.JOHANNESBURG -- Locusts by the millions are nibbling their way across a large part of Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years. Is this another effect of a changing climate? Yes, researchers say. An unprecedented food security crisis may be the result.
“A typical desert locust swarm can contain up to 150 million locusts per square kilometer,” the East African regional body, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, has said. “Swarms migrate with the wind and can cover 100 to 150 kilometers in a day. An average swarm can destroy as much food crops in a day as is sufficient to feed 2,500 people.”
Kenya hasn’t seen a locust outbreak like this in 70 years, Rosanne Marchesich, emergency response leader with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, said Wednesday. “Uganda has not had to deal with a locust infestation since the ‘60s so there is concern about the ability for experts on the ground to be able to deal with it without external support,” Marchesich said. “And in a country like South Sudan, already 47% of the population is food insecure.”
JP_007_FJ This attacked our country this year too but not much
Rev. 9:20
It has begun!!
Can't tear gas work on these things? justasking
FWIWmacro Make locust burgers!!!
niubi War, plagues, fires, and locusts think we’re just missing Famine
ItsJhopesjhoe earthtoksj
The apocalypse is near
jolly_angelina That's horrible. We have the same in the UK only in human form. It's called the Conservative party and they do nothing but take everything from vulnerable people to give it to their rich mates. Vote for Bernie so the same doesn't happen to you.
Thai people :
Terrible situación, q Dios ls Bendiga
For some this looks funny but for people like us who depend on agriculture it's a serious issue. My parents are farmers and I can't imagine what this will do to them.
Meliorist59 This is something out of Pearl S. Buck's 'The Good Earth'.
Enough with the climate change B.S! This happened many times in history & it had nothing to do with changing weather.
FurburgerMayor Disgusting! Climate change is so real!
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Trump is the antichrist
Citizen23221 Why are locusts necessary in life
So: flies, lice, livestock pestilence, boils, darkness, water turning to blood, and the killing of firstborn children is what we have to look forward to....
Frogs ✅ hail (Australia) ✅ locusts ✅ .....
Send seagulls. Quick!
Yowza
davidwbrown Wow
Yummy. Locust fry.
Worst in 25 years. So 25 years ago it was worse but somehow man's use of carbon caused it this time?
I personally witnessed their destructive power while in Chad in the late 80’s. Every vegetation gets reduced to nothing
Keep worshipping satan
OMG
Bible says must have pissed someone off
inky_mark Unusual. Unless it hadn't happened many times over many millennia. Something about a plague I recall...
Flambo !
Maybe the government should tax them?
Shit it’s finally happening. The first of the plagues. God is so fucking done with the GOP, he’s taking it out on the whole world
Kinda like the Bible is repeating itself and no one cares.
What 'Merica will look like after Election2020.
This is a very serious problem that they have..
No, the government must wait upon Greta Thunberg to come and tell them what to do. It's good to see you reporting on this, though, instead of wasting time on FISA Court's finding about illegal warrants. 'Nothing to see here.'
New headline: 'New fuel source discovered in East Africa'
Fires. Earthquakes. Now locusts. endofdays
Oh wow
Plagues and pestilence and end of days....
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