Ninety years ago this month, in the depths of the Great Depression, Congress created a new agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to safeguard rural prosperity for future generations: The ...
Every county in Ohio has one of these organizations. They were created out of the 1941 Ohio Soil Conservation District Enabling Act to preserve natural resources, manage erosion and prevent another ...
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 ...
Dust storms in the Borderland are nothing new, but the severity of the weather events and their frequency have worsened, statistics note. Thomas Gill, professor of Environmental Science and ...
In the 1930s, the Great Plains in the American South faced a financial and environmental catastrophe spurred by years of drought and reckless farming practices. Already reeling from the Great ...
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El Paso is experiencing unprecedented dust storms in 2025, reminiscent of the 1936 Dust Bowl. The National Weather Service issued dust storm warnings on Tuesday, May 13, and Wednesday, May 14, as high ...