The most devastating natural disaster in American history? If you believe it was Hurricane Katrina, reading "The Worst Hard Time" may change your mind. The book is a detailed account of the Dust Bowl ...
In their powerful new documentary The Dust Bowl, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan call the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s “the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history.” The great billowing ...
Our planet has been shaped by various human activities that have largely contributed to make Earth a better planet for survival. But some human activities are the reason for environmental disasters ...
The U.S. corn crop, already expected to be a record, keeps getting bigger. The Agriculture Department on Friday raised its estimate of the number of acres planted with corn by 1.5% to nearly 99 ...