Filmmaker Ken Burns addresses this question and more in “The Dust Bowl,” a new two-part, four-hour documentary that airs at 7 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Wednesday on PBS (Time Warner Cable channels 12 and ...

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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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- It was during a lunch break more than 30 years ago that Jim Pontarelli starting combing through the Dust Bowl photographs.

In their powerful new documentary The Dust Bowl, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan call the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s “the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history.” The great billowing ...

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 ...

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