The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...

In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains ...

A mural titled ‘The Security of the People’ by Seymour Fogel, illustrating the values and programs put forth by the New Deal. | Fine Art/GettyImages Nearly 100 years later, Americans are still ...

A fantastical new novel from Karen Russell turns the whispered secrets of a Dust Bowl town into a bold metaphor for repressed ...

She told how it’s “amazing” to have Before Dorothy being released at a time with a lot of love around the world for the land ...

Tropical Depression Two in the Bay of Campeche is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm. The more organized this system gets, the more moisture it would keep away from the Coastal Bend.

For Kilcullen novelist Hazel Gaynor, it was 30,000 words of a reimagined Wizard of Oz, set in modern Dublin, crunched out in ...

A dust storm, also known as a haboob, forms when strong, straight-line winds meet soil residue sitting among crops, ...

The NWS Chicago office confirmed that it's been close to a century since the city was hit with an event of this proportion; that storm took place in the early to mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl era.

An onlooker captured the moment a haboob, or a large of wall of dust, painted a brown streak across a gloomy skyline in Pecos, Texas on June 10.

The Dust Storm Warning was issued for municipalities in Reeves County and neighboring Ward County through a portion of Tuesday evening. The agency warned motorists of "near zero visibility" and ...

Dust storms are pretty rare across the Great Lakes region, but on May 16, one developed across northern Illinois and proceeded east through metropolitan Chicago and northern Indiana.