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Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Locust outbreaks, a visual often used in entertainment to signify an upcoming apocalypse, could worsen as global temperatures continue to climb, according to new research. Far-reaching, synchronized desert locust outbreaks are strongly coupled to climate change in the last several decades, a study published Wednesday […]

David Barnes appears in a courtroom for sentencing, Feb. 13, 2024, in Moscow. (Anastasia Bagaeva/ABC News) (MOSCOW) — On Tuesday David Barnes of Texas became the latest American to be convicted and sentenced in a Russian court on what experts say are trumped-up charges with little evidence. Svetlana Koptyaeva, Barnes’ ex-wife and a Russian national, accused him of […]

Gyamfi Prince / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fish, sea turtles, elephants, sharks, shorebirds and more of the world’s migratory species are in dire decline, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report from the United Nations. “This report showed us for the first time, in a very sobering way, that across […]

AUBIN MUKONI/AFP/Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 200 people have been killed and thousands have been forced to flee following a sharp uptick of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a “dramatic resurgence” of violence, the March 23 Movement (M23) armed rebel group is advancing towards Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, forcing thousands […]

Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL AVIV and LONDON) — Before war erupted between Israel and Hamas in October, the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip was home to around 250,000 people. Now, the population has swelled to an estimated 1.4 million, according to the United Nations, and residents are living in fear […]

ABC News (TEL  AVIV, Israel) — Some families of Israeli hostages say they have reached their breaking point and have begun to take extreme measures to express their frustration more than four months into the Israel-Hamas war. Dozens of people have blocked traffic in recent days on Israeli highways, lit fires, thrown buckets of fake blood, […]

MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Alexei Navalny, the longtime Russian opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin — often considered to be a vocal and prominent thorn in the side of the Russian government — has died in prison at age 47, according to the prison service. “On 02/16/2024, in correctional colony No. […]

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than four months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The conflict, now the deadliest between the warring sides since Israel’s founding in 1948, shows no signs of letting up soon and the brief cease-fire […]

filo/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukraine said it “destroyed” another one of Russia’s warships in the Black Sea on Wednesday — a claim not yet confirmed by Moscow. Ukrainian naval drones struck the Caesar Kunikov landing ship, part of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet, near the city of Alupka on the southern edge of the […]

Kalahari Lion (Panthera leo). CREDIT: Digital Vision/Getty Images (LONDON) — Wildlife authorities in Kenya are intensifying the search for Olobor, an iconic lion of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya. The well-known lion, a member of the Black Rock lion pride, has reportedly been missing since mid-January. “KWS [Kenya Wildlife Service] tasked the […]