In the early 20th century, farmers across the Great Plains harnessed new technology to cash in on a huge demand for wheat. But over-farming led to the removal of prairie grasses which had kept the ...

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

An early El Niño has experts warning that Oklahoma could face drought conditions and a 'mini Dust Bowl' risk.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild horses running and kicking up dust. Yilki horses are wild horses with no owners in Kayseri, Turkey© yalicn/Shutterstock.com ...

Kansas is a wheat-growing powerhouse — usually. Between 1981 and 2020, the state produced almost 360 million bushels of wheat per year, or almost a quarter of the total U.S. output. Russia’s 2022 ...

A global research effort led by Colorado State University shows that extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems ...

If you live in El Paso, Las Cruces, or Ciudad Juárez and feel like you’ve been inhaling the Chihuahuan Desert lately, you’re not imagining things. The Borderplex region is experiencing its dustiest ...

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was a devastating but temporary confluence of human cluelessness and natural accident. It was also a demonstration of humanity’s ability to wreck an environment when we ...