Alyssa Colman reflects on her research behind her forthcoming middle grade novel, Where Only Storms Grow—which takes place ...

The 1935 tragedy during a years-long drought compounded by a lack of soil conservation efforts "should be remembered as the ...

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

During the Great Depression, the United States experienced years of massive dust storms that would become known as the Dust Bowl era.

A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...

On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains. People drove as fast as they could to get away from the black clouds or covered their faces, ...

Recent dust storms in Illinois have raised the question of the cause of these events. In the last few years, these dust ...

The storms were driven by winds in excess of 70 mph across a ... and America was about to enter a dark economic decade. The original Dust Bowl, for those who aren’t familiar, took place in the late ...

An exhibit at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa is giving visitors a look back in time at one of the worst days in the Dust ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A gust of wind sweeps over bare soil, kicking up enough dirt and dust to cut visibility to nearly zero, and for drivers, the dust storm seems to come out of nowhere. Such ...

On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains. People drove as fast as they could to get away from the black clouds or covered their faces, ...

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 ...