A new report does not mean we're headed to another Dust Bowl, but it does mean we’re potentially in for a much drier, hotter ...
In the 1930s, the Great Plains in the American South faced a financial and environmental catastrophe spurred by years of drought and reckless farming practices. Already reeling from the Great ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WESTFIELD — Sophomores in Mark Dargie’s history class at Westfield High School made the 1930s come to life in the classroom with ...
Ninety years ago this month, in the depths of the Great Depression, Congress created a new agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to safeguard rural prosperity for future generations: The ...
About 90 years ago, American farmers in the Great Plains had so ravaged the thin soil there that a series of droughts turned the region into a vast expanse of dust, which formed monstrous storms and ...
Karen Russell’s 2011 novel “Swamplandia!” featured a section about how the United States Army Corps of Engineers tried to drain Florida’s swamps to create, the author says, “this American Eden of ...
It’s not a certainty, but heat and drought are more frequent in the U.S., upping the odds of the disaster’s return.
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.
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