Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

Hatred is a spiritual sickness that consumes the soul, warps reason, and drives us toward self-destructive actions. Pharaoh’s ...

The worst desert locust outbreak in a generation has been decimating crops and other vegetation across the Horn of Africa. Since January, Kenya Ethiopia, and Somalia have been battling to contain the ...

Some states have spotted cicadas starting to emerge. Will they come to Ohio in 2024? Learn and explore with this interactive map.

Buck’s 1931 novel recounts: “There came out of the south one day a small slight cloud. The men of the village watched it, and ...

Early American colonists would call cicadas locusts, as they were reminded of the biblical plague of locusts due to the ...

It was the case of one good story leading to another. After its shocking report Jan. 25 on the locust swarms devastating agriculture in Kenya,AP’s Nairobi team came through with another truly striking ...

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

FOR the past three years an organised effort has been made by the Governments of the South African colonies to destroy the swarms of locusts that from time to time invade the cultivated districts ...

Strange that the last three of the ten plagues are in a separate Torah portion. Even more striking i ...

It appears that its’ underlying purpose is to transform the home into an altar, for the members of the household to serve, at ...