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If you live in El Paso, Las Cruces, or Ciudad Juárez and feel like you’ve been inhaling the Chihuahuan Desert lately, you’re not imagining things. The Borderplex region is experiencing its dustiest ...
Scientists say drought and climate change are driving the severe dust storms pummeling the border region of Chihuahua, New ...
Stuck in the grip of an exceptional drought, the city of El Paso, Texas, is facing dusty conditions not seen in nearly 90 years. NASA has released an image of the latest dust storm captured by the ...
The calendar switched to June 1 on Sunday, officially kicking off the three-month period of meteorological summer — June, ...
it was the combination of drought and misuse of the land that led to the incredible devastation of the Dust Bowl years. Originally covered with grasses that held the fine soil in place ...
In the 1930s, the Great Plains in the American South faced a financial and environmental catastrophe spurred by years of ...
As Congress works to reauthorize a new Farm Bill, we must remember the lessons of the Dust Bowl and insist on robust funding ...
Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state ...
A photo from the Dust Bowl (1936), likely taken in Oklahoma ... change—including stronger heat waves and intensification of drought—an increase in the risk of dust storms and potential ...
which was during the first wave of the Dust Bowl — a series of intense dust storms caused by a combination of drought and poor farming methods in the mid- to late-1930s — according to National ...
A rare dust storm swept in from the southwest and enveloped the Chicago metropolitan area Friday evening, darkening the sky ...
My family lost our farm in the Dust Bowl: a brutal decade in which the combination of poor land management and drought robbed much of the Great Plains of its topsoil. For nine decades now ...