Heavy wind and rain may be triggering widespread, synchronized desert locust outbreaks in key breadbasket regions of the world, new research shows. And the range of these ravenous, crop-stripping locusts could expand up to 25% due to climate change.
The study, published Wednesday (Feb. 14) in the journal Science Advances, is the first to show a robust link between large-scale, synchronous locust swarms and specific weather patterns.
