Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term drought affects crucial grassland and shrubland ecosystems around the world.

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Dust storms have always swirled through parts of North America, but they are becoming more unexpected and destructive and landing in places unfamiliar with the danger, scientists warn. In May 2023, a ...

Arizona’s recent haboobs are dramatic but common, driven by thunderstorm winds. Wisconsin once saw Prairie dust darken its skies during the 1930s Dust Bowl. Better farming and forecasting has lowered ...

The Great Depression was an era of financial toil for nearly everyone in the United States. But those in the Dust Bowl were hit particularly hard - the Southern plains region of the US experienced a ...

On May 12, 1934, a wall of dust swept across the Great Plains, darkening skies from Chicago to Washington, D.C. Ships off the Atlantic coast were coated in reddish-brown soil, and street lights ...

Some of America's most extreme heat occurred during the Dust Bowl, particularly in late July, and there are still all-time records standing today. On July 24, 1934, 91 years ago today, all-time record ...

1934 was a particularly hot year in the contiguous United States, but not globally exceptional. Worldwide, 1934 was a relatively cooler year and does not stand out in the global record. The myth began ...

A dust storm approaches Bloomington, Illinois. (Photo: Jason Borchardt / National Weather Service) Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the ...

But the Antidote and her colleagues aren’t the only memory-erasers in the novel. When a huge dust storm (the one known as Black Sunday, which, Woody Guthrie famously wrote, “blocked out the traffic an ...