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 ...

He’s seen it all before. Back in the Dust Bowl days he watched in awe as dark clouds of topsoil swallowed up the family ranch. That was in the mid-1930s, when Bill Tullos was just a boy.

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 ...

(Max McCoy) 1. Hoping for a miracle to save the Ogallala Aquifer? Prepare for the new Dust Bowl. (Max McCoy, June 30) In the summer of 1894, a curious railway car plied the tracks of western ...

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 ...