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The last time there have been this many dust storms in El Paso in an entire year was 1936, during the Dust Bowl, which ...
If you live in El Paso, Las Cruces, or Ciudad Juárez and feel like you’ve been inhaling the Chihuahuan Desert lately, you’re ...
As Congress works to reauthorize a new Farm Bill, we must remember the lessons of the Dust Bowl and insist on robust funding ...
A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...
El Paso's dust storms of 2025 have now become a historic milestone. According to Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist at ...
A lot has changed since "Black Sunday" and the Dust Bowl, including improvements to soil conservation techniques, and the creation of national grasslands, to prevent another Black Blizzard.
I never intended to write a novel about the Dust Bowl. In early 2020, I was deep in an internet rabbit hole trying to find the most effective masks. I thank whatever fates and algorithms led me to ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The 90th anniversary of one of the worst days in Oklahoma history, marked as “Black Sunday” by survivors of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, was commemorated Monday at ...
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 ...
A lot has changed since "Black Sunday" and the Dust Bowl, including improvements to soil conservation techniques, and the creation of national grasslands, to prevent another Black Blizzard.