Modern-Day Dust Bowls Devastate Regions Throughout the World

EcoWatch: Unfortunately, dust bowls are not just relics of the past. Today two new dust bowls are forming: one in northern China and southern Mongolia and the other in Africa south of the Sahara. When most people hear the term "dust bowl," they think of the American heartland in the 1930s, when a homesteading wheat bonanza led to the plowing up of the Great Plains' native grassland, culminating in the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Despite warnings from researchers and some farmers,...

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