Drought
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A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions. A drought can last for days, months or years. Drought often has large impacts on the ecosystems and agriculture of affected regions, and causes h
Fields outside Benambra, Australia suffering from drought in 2006.
Contraction and desiccation cracks in the dry earth of the Sonoran Desert, northwestern Mexico
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Pair of dead oryx in Namibia during the 2018–19 Southern Africa drought.
Dust Bowl
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of
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…Wildfires, such as Australian bushfires and wildfires in the United States, become more common during times of drought and may cause human deaths. Dust Bowls, themselves a sign of erosion, which further erode the landscape Dust storms, when drought hits an area suffering from desertification and erosion…
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936
A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, in 1935.
A dust storm; Spearman, Texas, April 14, 1935
Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas, c. 1936