About Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes caused the phenomenon.
New ground as tech aims to help boost soil health
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Oct 24,2022 5:51 am
... " We all remember those images of the North American Dust Bowl from the 1930s, and being really shocked by that, " says David Montgomery, professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington, and the author of three books on soil, including Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations...
Veteran Republican leader Bob Dole dies
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Dec 5,2021 8:26 pm
... Robert Joseph Dole was born on 22 July 1923 and grew up in the Dust Bowl of Kansas during the Great Depression...