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Drier Dust Bowl: Waiting for relief in rural America
2014-07-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The water could start at any time. Every few hours, Anita Pointon refreshes the Web site that tells when its coming, because the work begins as soon as they know. Her husband, Chuck, 62, will set out to walk the farm with a moisture probe to see which fields are the driest. One run of water covers only about 18 acres of their 500, so they have to choose carefully. As rural America wilts, this is how those left working its powder-dry land get by: At the appointed hour, Chuck turns the head...
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Dust Bowl Days: Will We Cut Carbon Pollution Fast Enough To Prevent Permanent Droughts?
2014-05-22 08:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Large parts of the Southwest are drier than they were during the 1930s Dust Bowl. And the latest science says unrestricted carbon pollution will make this a near-permanent situation post-2050 in a growing portion of this country and around the world - for a thousand years or more! Earlier this month, the U.S. Drought Monitor warned that "devastatingly dry, dusty, windy conditions on the southern Great Plains fueled concerns of a 'New Dust Bowl`. The epicenter of the 1930s Dust Bowl was where Kansas,...
Dust Bowl Worries Swirl Up As Shelterbelt Buckles
2013-09-10 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl ravaged crops and helped plunge the U.S. into an environmental and economic depression. Farmland in parts of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas disappeared. After the howling winds passed and the dust settled, federal foresters planted 100 million trees across the Great Plains, forming a giant windbreak - known as a shelterbelt - that stretched from Texas to Canada. Now, those trees are dying from drought, leaving some to worry whether another Dust Bowl might...
Dust bowl blues
2013-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: Ed Moore's ranch sits on the flatlands of the Texas panhandle, east of Lubbock, just outside the tiny town of Ralls. On a clear day, you can see for miles in any direction. Most days, however, the dust blows--and when it does, the sky becomes a dull orange haze and the scene becomes impressionistic. The high gray towers of grain elevators dot the landscape. Cattle graze in silhouette. Farmers ride through the gloom on tractors with vast "sand fighters' that gather the earth into big clods so the...
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Dust Bowl Days Are Here Again
2013-06-09 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Dear EarthTalk: Could it really be true that we are in the midst of the worst drought in the United States since the 1930s?Deborah Lynn, Needham, Mass. Indeed we are embroiled in what many consider the worst drought in the U.S. since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s that rendered some 50 million acres of farmland barely usable. Back then, drought conditions combined with poor soil management practices to force some 2.5 million Americans away from the Great Plains, only wreaking further havoc on...
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