This unprecedented extreme weather phenomena became known as the Dust Bowl. And as if this wasn't enough, it all took place while the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression.

The recent years-long drought may have tipped parts of the Northern Cape towards an irreversible dust bowl, following decades ...

Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. June 28, 1934 ...

Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Dust Bowl was an event that happened almost 100 years ago in the United States where severe dust storms moved across the country damaging agriculture. With the severe ...