The Great Plains Dust Bowl of the 1930s was arguably the most devastating ecological disaster in American history, turning prairies into deserts and whipping up killer dust storms. The catastrophe ...

In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day ...

A fantastical new novel from Karen Russell turns the whispered secrets of a Dust Bowl town into a bold metaphor for repressed ...

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 ...

Greed has been blamed for at least part of the dust bowl phenomenon. After the Homestead Act of 1862, settlers squatted on this land in the panhandle, aptly known as No Man`s Land until Oklahoma ...

The original Dust Bowl, for those who aren’t familiar, took place in the late 1930s after an economic collapse and demographic shifts made farming uneconomical in the central U.S.

Bone-dry fields, dark skies, and death-by-dust-pneumonia: remembering the horrors of the Dust Bowl can help us fight climate change.

The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was arguably one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century. New computer simulations reveal the whipped-up dust is what made the drought so severe.

Imagine your novel about farmers fleeing the high plains during the Dust Bowl is about to be published. But another book — one partially based on your notes — comes out first. It’s John ...