A new report does not mean we're headed to another Dust Bowl, but it does mean we’re potentially in for a much drier, hotter future than many of us expect, ... .
About 90 years ago, American farmers in the Great Plains had so ravaged the thin soil there that a series of droughts turned the region into a vast expanse of dust, which formed monstrous storms and polluted the skies in ... .
The two phenomena — the Dust Bowl and those epic heat waves — were connected ... This doesn’t mean we’re doomed to another Dust Bowl ... The return of rain at the end of the decade ended the Dust Bowl, and ...
A saxaul seed, with its five membranous wings, is blown by the wind onto sandy soil recently moistened by fleeting rain. It quickly takes root and sprouts within two to three hours ... A few honeybees follow the scent ... This creates a virtuous cycle ...