Farmers can prevent spring dust storms by reducing tillage, planting cover crops and keeping soil covered with crop residue.

Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. When Franklin Roosevelt takes ...

A strengthening El Niño developing in the Pacific could reshape U.S. drought patterns over the next year.

A windy, dusty day can ruin your new car wash and leave you with grit in your mouth and dirt on your floors. But a new study in the journal Nature Sustainability, published by researchers at The ...

CLAYTON — On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains. People drove as fast as they could to get away from the black clouds or covered ...

A dust storm approaches Bloomington, Illinois. (Photo: Jason Borchardt / National Weather Service) Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the ...