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Desert Locust Outbreak in 2020 In the year 2020, the world witnessed distress in big time. We have had an economic slowdown, coronavirus, cyclones, and now desert locust.   Locusts plagues have existed even in ancient times. Also, mentioned about these insects in religious and ancient scriptures. In recent times the year 2019, an outbreak of desert locusts exponentially increased in eastern Africa, Arabian Peninsula, South Asia, and the South American region.   Locust attack on crops on a large scale can create a scarcity of food, which is a danger for the food supply across the region.  What is locust?  Locusts are short-horned grasshoppers from the Acrididae family. There are many types of locusts around in different parts of the world. Only in India, there are four species of locusts found. They are Desert locust, Migratory locust, Bombay locust, and Tree locust.  Out of all these four, desert locust is the most dangerous one. Desert locust has the ability of swarms to fly acros

Tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean in 2020 Recently, in the northern Indian ocean, a powerful cyclone "Nisarga" slammed near Maharashtra and the Gujarat coast area. Mumbai has seen a cyclone of this nature after 129 years. Nisarga’s wind speed was at Mumbai region 110 km/h. At Alibaug, the wind speed was recorded 120-140 km/h. More than 100,000 people from Maharashtra and Gujarat coast are evacuated to a safer place with the help of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).  Just fifteen days earlier, a powerful super Cyclonic Storm Amphan caused severe damages in Eastern India and Bangladesh region .  Amphan reached its peak intensity with three minutes sustained wind speeds of 240 km/h one minute sustained wind speeds of 260 km/h. On 20 May, the cyclone made landfall in West Bengal. it was rapidly weakened thereafter. Nearly 100 people have lost their lives and causing over US$13 billion of damages. Amphan is also the costliest cyclone ever recorded in the North India