Discovered: Urban grasshoppers get loud when looking for a mate; carbon dioxide emissions hit record high; meat is full of PCBs and antibiotics; El Niño on the rise. Carbon emissions continue to climb ...

Vanessa Couldridge receives funding from the National Research Foundation (South Africa). But more often than not, grasshoppers have more to fear from humans than the other way around. As we ...

Most animals on Earth have two sexes, male and female, that combine and mix their genes when they reproduce. We are so accustomed to this state of affairs that the existence of all-female species that ...

Grasshoppers have a bad reputation. They're not popular with gardeners, and locusts, a type of swarming grasshopper, can do huge damage to vegetation and crops when they're in a feeding frenzy. But ...