It details that, as climate change worsens, locusts will expand their ranges in the very same North African and Middle Eastern regions where the Bible is set. A December study from the Journal of Agricultural and Food Research found that agricultural insect pests will thrive as climate change worsens. The authors of that piece also found that climate change will be a boon to certain types of agricultural insect pests. This point was also made in a 2020 study for the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, which similarly examined how global insect pests will react to climate change. "This means that the severity of a given insect pest may both increase and decrease with ongoing climate warming."

Source: The North Africa Journal February 26, 2024 13:37 UTC