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 Dust Bowl of the 1930s brought more than hard times to America's Heartland and Southwest. Known as 'black blizzards,' dust storms moved across the United States with devastating force. Take a look ...

A dark cloud of dust rose high into the air, reaching as far as the eye could see. Many people living on the Southern Prairies thought the world was coming to an end. To many on that Black Sunday, ...

Mark Sweeney of the University of South Dakota will discuss his book, “The Dust Bowl in South Dakota: A Dusty Future?” when the Sierra Club Discovery Group meets at 6:30 ...

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 much-earlier cycles ...

The Dust Bowl was the result of four droughts occurring in quick succession, with the worst conditions occurring in 1930, 1934 and 1936. That’s the conclusion of a study by the National Drought ...

WASHINGTON -- This probably comes as no surprise: Federal scientists say July was the hottest month ever recorded in the Lower 48 states, breaking a record set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. And ...

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 ...

It would not be unreasonable to expect that with such developments over the past 80 years, American agriculture would be more capable of handling a major drought than it was in the 1930s. After all, ...

An important fact to remember is that the 2012 drought is--so far--only a one-year drought. Recall that 2011 saw record rains that led to unprecedented flooding on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri ...

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term ...