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 ...

The Dust Bowl wasn’t just a drought; it was a man-made disaster. Massive dust storms forced millions to migrate and forever ...

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly seen ...

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Roughly 2.5 million people left the Dust Bowl states (Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Nebraska) during the 1930s. It was one of the largest migrations in American history. Ironically, the ...

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