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 ...

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term drought affects crucial grassland and shrubland ecosystems around the world.

EL PASO, Texas—On a Tuesday afternoon in May, earth system scientist Thomas Gill was tracking yet more dust rolling through this border city. Gill, a member of the faculty at the University of Texas ...

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 ...

Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean they’re likely to continue. In their wake, air quality readings spiked ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The ecological and human tragedy known as the Dust Bowl may have been even more cruel than those who suffered through it knew. As if having day-long "Black Blizzards" steal tons of ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The drought of the Dust Bowl era hurt many more farmers in the state than the current dry spell, according to a new report from South Dakota State University. In 1935, nine of ...

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