destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

It was a haboob, or a dust storm, created by winds from a thunderstorm. Witnesses rushed to post the spectacle on social media. Some described the surreal scene as like being on a movie set ...

More recently, in 2022, a dust storm developed over the same part of the Saharan desert and carried the dust north, making its way to parts of Europe. In this new effort, the research team ...

When the drought and dust storms showed no signs of letting up, many people abandoned their land. Others would have stayed but were forced out when they lost their land in bank foreclosures.