Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean they’re likely to continue. In their wake, air quality readings spiked ...

In the early 20th century, farmers across the Great Plains harnessed new technology to cash in on a huge demand for wheat. But over-farming led to the removal of prairie grasses which had kept the ...

The 1930’s are remembered as one of the worst economic recessions and driest periods in United States history. Before extreme ...

The 1930s Dust Bowl, fueled by overplowing across the Great Plains and associated with record heat and drought, appears to have affected heat extremes far beyond the United States. New research finds ...

Wild horses running and kicking up dust. Yilki horses are wild horses with no owners in Kayseri, Turkey© yalicn/Shutterstock.com The Dust Bowl of the 1930s left a deep mark on the Great Plains, not ...

The Dust Bowl was the result of four droughts occurring in quick succession, with the worst conditions occurring in 1930, 1934 and 1936. A major contributing factor to the Dust Bowl was poor farming ...

PORTLAND, ORE. – Events like the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, immortalized in "The Grapes of Wrath" and remembered as a transforming event for millions of Americans, were regular parts of ...

WESTFIELD — Sophomores in Mark Dargie’s history class at Westfield High School made the 1930s come to life in the classroom with cardboard houses and a dust storm simulation. “My sophomore U.S.

MOLINE, Ill. — The recent wave of heat across the United States has made plenty of headlines. Temperature records falling throughout the southwest, including the longevity of 100+ degree days! Many of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — This already feels like some dry years in South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa’s past. “Off the top of my head it reminds of August 2012, the early ...

The 1930s Dust Bowl, fueled by overplowing across the Great Plains and associated with record heat and drought, appears to have affected heat extremes far beyond the United States. New research finds ...