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A swarm of stink bugs and a river of rats: why India’s flowering bamboo causes a crisis for humans

A swarm of stink bugs and a river of rats: why India’s flowering bamboo causes a crisis for humans

In the hills of Mizoram state in north-east India, the first thing that farmers notice are the swarms of stink bugs, known locally as thangnang. It can mean only one thing: the rats are coming. And with them, famine. As dawn breaks in Mamit... Read more.

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