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Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying across the American South and Midwest.

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Think cicadas are weird? Check out superfans, who eat the bugs, use them in art and even striptease
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Sat,06/15/24-6:43AM , 142 Reads
FOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) — Mayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting together, whips out her phone, says, “Hi guys!" and takes their picture.
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Dead periodical cicadas and nymphal shells pile up at the base of a tree, Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Charleston, Ill. Trillions of once hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people's shirts, hats and even faces. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Fri,06/14/24-8:30AM , 84 Reads
RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to shed their skin and emerge as adults. And then the fun began.
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A woman is silhouetted against the setting sun as triple-digit heat indexes continue in the Midwest, Aug. 20, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,06/04/24-6:18PM , 152 Reads
The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year's surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated.
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A polling official enjoys a cooling spray of water under intense heat at a distribution venue for Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and other election material on the eve of the fifth phase of polling in the six-week-long national election in Lucknow, India, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A top United Nations official says even though climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally. Thats because of better warning, planning and resilience. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

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UN official highlights how better preparation has shrunk disaster deaths despite worsening climate
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Sat,06/01/24-1:00AM , 103 Reads
As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better warning, planning and resilience, a top United Nations official said.
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