Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean ...

In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and ...

Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.

This is exactly what happened to the late author Sanora Babb. Her inspiration began as a child in Southeastern Colorado after ...

Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. When Franklin Roosevelt ...

Hazy or dust-darkened skies have recalled the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s, when millions of tons of blowing soil buried farms and coated towns across the Great Plains. Lesser storms occur every year, ...

The end of winter and the beginning of spring always seem to be accompanied by winds that blow for days and weeks on end. When winter is as dry as this one has been, ...

The Dust Bowl, a two-part, four-hour documentary series by Ken Burns, aired November 18 and 19, 2012 on PBS. The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed ...

As a child in the 1920s, Anne Bailey remembered golden days on the Saskatchewan prairie when wheat was king and harvest time was the highlight of the year. During the 1930s, drought and economic ...