Onshore winds continue Sunday, prompting a chance for areas of rain along the coast in the morning that develop into ...

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

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

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

In fact, a dust storm carrying tons of particles across the U.S. struck the East Coast on this day in 1934. Due to a devastating drought, the 1930s set a precedent in U.S. history. On the heels of the ...

A "full-fledged" dust storm, Gill added, is one in which visibility falls to just half-a-mile. This latest storm is the 10th such event this year—far above the 1.8 storm annual average.

Sunday's storm is one of many that has impacted the state, highlighting the problem of "dust season." Jake Dreyfous, the managing director of the environmental group Grow the Flow, also documented ...

Between 1930 and 1940, severe dust storms swept the drought-stricken Great Plains in an era that became known as the Dust Bowl. ... After this deep dive into the Dust Bowl, learn more about the Great ...

Alyssa Colman reflects on her research behind her forthcoming middle grade novel, 'Where Only Storms Grow'—which takes place during Black Sunday, one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, 90 ...

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 ...

Because of theseefforts, we went from cataclysmic dust storms and depression to having some of the cleanestair, water, and ecosystems in the world. When I arrived in Washington in 1994, I brought with ...

Ninety years ago, the Black Sunday dust storm blasted the Great Plains with millions of tons of topsoil scoured from the once-rich prairies. The Dust Bowl had arrived.