According to the Earth Institute at Columbia University, The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst ...

I’ll strive not to overdo this drought thing despite its dusty intrusion into my autumnal jaunt-abouts in the Pines, as I divide my time between LBI’s sugar sand and the Pinelands’ equally sugary sand ...

An Aug. 10 article noted “the James River at Richmond is one foot below the zero mark, a record low reading for the ten years which measurements have been kept.” ...

Previous major droughts occurred in the 1920s and 30s, during the Dust Bowl Era, and again in the 1950s. Saffell said the ...

It sounds like 40 John Deere lawn tractors as it slowly makes its way to our block, hitched behind a public works truck. An ...

Sanora Babb spent her life dealing with all the multifarious daily perils that prevent writers from writing. She was raised in poverty by a mother who was only 16 when she gave birth to her and an ...

Their history dates back to the 1930s during the Dust Bowl, a period of severe drought and massive dust storms that devastated American farmlands. In response to this crisis, the Soil Conservation Act ...

JEFFERSON CITY — For the second time in two years, Gov. Mike Parson has declared a drought emergency affecting 88 of Missouri ...

Not long ago, I was having a conversation with the guy delivering water to us. Unfortunately, the drought caused our well to ...

By Rhea Maze, Growing up in southeastern Colorado, near an area among the hardest hit by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, James ...

only to pack up and leave during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s when drought and dust storms destroyed millions of acres of farmland. In “Centennial,” an epic historical novel about northern ...

Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath ... “Their cotton fields were being crushed by drought and the Depression.” Steinbeck had been Dunkle ...