Swarms of up to 80 million locusts have decimated crops in East Africa, threatening food security for 13 million people. “Yet locust research has been conducted like studying bomb explosion impacts but neglecting to study explosives,” says SAEON’s Dr Joh Henschel. When asked why, Joh explains it is because explosives don’t do anything remarkable for most of the time of their existence.” Read Joh’s article in the next newsletter.
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