Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. Roosevelt signs the ...

I’ll strive not to overdo this drought thing despite its dusty intrusion into my autumnal jaunt-abouts in the Pines, as I divide my time between LBI’s sugar sand and the Pinelands’ equally sugary sand ...

According to the Earth Institute at Columbia University, The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst ...

The drought and storms led to one of the largest ... But even so, in 2020, new research found that the heat waves which caused the dust bowl were more than twice as likely to occur as in the ...

Pat Rush and her family left Arkansas in the wake of one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, in the hope of making a ...

was the third driest on record in Columbus (5.07 inches), only surpassed in 1930 and 1933 during the Dust Bowl era. The ...

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Their history dates back to the 1930s during the Dust Bowl, a period of severe drought and massive dust storms that devastated American farmlands. In response to this crisis, the Soil Conservation Act ...

is a tough reality for farmers who struggled through a drought ravaged crop season in 2022. It’s hard to forget the scenes from February. A dust storm tore through the southern plains ...

An area known as the largest cotton patch in the U.S. is seeing another year of relentless drought, and with fields resembling the Dust Bowl, prospects for this year’s crop are dwindling by the ...