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

I n the hills of Mizoram state in north-east India, the first thing that farmers notice are the swarms of stink bugs, thangnang. It can mean only one thing: the rats are coming. And with them, famine. The damage may be evident this morning, but it began months earlier, in late 2025, deep inside bam...

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