USDA forecasts our current plagues may be followed by hopping insects

Alex Wild writes at his blog, Myrmecos

With plumes of crude oil destroying the Gulf of Mexico, tensions rising in the middle east, a severe hurricane season reving up in the Atlantic, and the earth opening up and just plain swallowing parts of Guatemala City whole, what else could possibly go wrong?

Yes, a plague, of grasshoppers (locusts are short-horned grasshoppers). Next?

“For the First Time in My Environmental Career, I’m Using the Word ‘Hopeless’”

Melissa Lafsky writes:

This video was taken by John Wathen, an environmentalist from Alabama also known as the Hurricane Creekkeeper. The images, and his informative yet devastating narration, give some visual sense of just how bad the situation in the Gulf has become. For more of Wathen’s coverage, check out his blog, BPoilslick.blogspot.com.

[H/T: A Blog Around the Clock]