Spain's Canary Islands face renewed locust swarm
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Spain's Canary Islands, which last week declared a state of alert as swarms of locusts arrived from western Africa, is under threat from a renewed cloud of the creatures, an AFP photographer on the spot said.
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Millions of pink locusts swept through one of Spain's Canary Islands on Monday, driving tourists from its famous beaches.
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization says widespread breeding of desert locusts continues in West Africa and new swarms are being formed.
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New swarms of crop-devouring locusts are on the move towards north-western Africa, the UN says.
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The BBC's Martha Dixon sees how Spain struggles to deal with illegal immigrants in the Canary Islands.
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New South Wales, Australia, is bracing for what authorities predict will be the worst locust plague in 25 years.
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Spain's northwest Galicia region made preparations Wednesday for Tropical Storm Gordon, which was downgraded from a hurricane but expected to intensify again as it merged with another violent weather system, with winds gusting up to 80 mph and 30-foot waves, officials said.
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After more than 250 migrants were intercepted trying to reach the Canary Islands in a 24-hour period, Spain's interior minister said Thursday that more European help is needed to stop the surge in illegal immigrants from Africa.
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Spain braced for fresh attacks by the armed Basque separatist group ETA on Wednesday, after the movement formally ended a 15-month ceasefire and vowed to resume its battle for an independent state.
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It hasn't yet reached biblical proportions, but the plague of locusts currently infesting the resort town of Canc&#250;n has some residents looking to the heavens for help.
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threatened that they may disappear soon due to intensive agriculture and climate change, scientists say. &quot;The number of bird species in trouble across Europe is rising,&quot; said BirdLife, a British-based conservation group.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says more funds are essential to combat locust swarms that are devastating crops in West Africa, and warns failure to act quickly, could result in a regional plague by the end of the year.
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Ministry of Agriculture expresses hope temperature drop and change in windâs direction would assist in overcoming problem. After millions of locusts invaded southern Israel on Sunday, the Ministry of Agriculture
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With swarms of locusts threatening crops in a number of African countries, a U.N. agency appealed for an additional &#36;70 million in assistance Thursday to prevent the upsurge from becoming a full-scale plague.
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The desert locust infestation that  descended on West and Central Africa this year is likely to  return in 2005 and officials will have to be better prepared to  avoid major damage to crops, experts said on Monday.
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A vast swarm of locusts invades the Mauritanian capital, laying waste to the city's greenery.
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Israeli ag officials are coping with huge swarms of locusts sweeping in from North Africa, the first such invasion since 1959. Residents report clouds of the insects munching palm trees bare, but some citizens are eating the bugs.