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 ...

Introduction: "To the farmer in all of us" : agricultural citizenship as racial gatekeeping -- "Settlers galore, but no free land" : white citizenship and the right to land ownership in Factories in ...

CLAYTON — 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 ...

Dust storms in the Borderland are nothing new, but the severity of the weather events and their frequency have worsened, statistics note. Thomas Gill, professor of Environmental Science and ...

1. 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 ...

During the Great Depression, the United States experienced years of massive dust storms that would become known as the Dust Bowl era. In the spring of 1934, the effects of a large dust storm were felt ...