Southern California is especially vulnerable. The Imperial Valley and eastern San Diego County are among the regions most ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A wind storm is slamming Kern County and pushing dust up into the air, leading to car crashes, power outages and heightened fears of valley fever. Winds have been gusting ...

Imagine driving down a desert highway on a bright summer afternoon when suddenly, the horizon disappears behind a towering wall of dust. Then, within minutes, the sky darkens, visibility drops to zero ...

Recent deadly swirls from dry open fields have prompted scientists to examine how climate change contributes to ...

Severe thunderstorm, dust storm, flash flood warnings were issued by the National Weather Service in Phoenix on Wednesday, Sept. 3.

They are haboobs, the huge clouds of dust that develop ahead of a thunderstorm during the Arizona monsoon. A dust storm that swept through Phoenix Aug. 25 towered thousands of feet into the air and ...

Massive walls of dust and debris called haboobs that roll through the U.S. Southwest can be awe-inspiring and terrifying, especially for motorists caught in their path. Thunderstorms spawn the ...

Sarah Lynch Baldwin is a deputy managing editor of CBSNews.com. She helps lead national and breaking news coverage and shapes editorial workflows. A massive wall of dust — called a haboob — hit the ...

A new collaborative study between Reichman University and the Technion reveals, for the first time, how living bacteria are able to survive inside dust particles transported through the atmosphere by ...

They can seem to appear from nowhere, swirling and pulsing as they grow to cover the horizon, reducing visibility to zero as they swallow freeways, streets and entire neighborhoods. They are haboobs, ...