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The Dust Bowl was the result of 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 natural factors (severe drought ) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion , most ...
Dust Bowl in central United States (1930s) Great sparrow campaign; sparrows were eliminated from Chinese farms, which caused locusts to swarm the farms and contributed to a famine which killed 38 million people. Gulf of Mexico dead zone; Salinity in Australia; Salinization of the Fertile Crescent; Salton Sea California, U.S.
April 14, 1935, during the Dust Bowl: Texas Panhandle to the Oklahoma Panhandle, United States [note 1] Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977: December 19-21, 1977 Southern San Joaquin Valley, California: 1983 Melbourne dust storm: February 8, 1983 Victoria, Australia: 1991 Interstate 5 dust storm: November 29, 1991 San Joaquin Valley, California
Exceptional precipitation absence in northern hemisphere exacerbated by human activities [citation needed] causes the Dust Bowl drought of the US plains and the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 (harsh economic damage in US and widespread death in USSR). 1939 1945 World War II, with heavy bombardment, genocide, and explosions.
The Dust Bowl, or "Dirty Thirties", ... The 1930s Timeline year by year timeline of events in science and technology, politics and society, culture and international ...
This timeline of the history of environmentalism is a listing of events that have shaped humanity's ... 1930–1940 — The Dust Bowl, ... The next year, ...
Timeline of United States history (1930–1949) ... Events from the year 1936 in the United States. ... Dust Bowl (1930–1936) New Deal (1933–1939) [2]
1934 – Dust Bowl begins, causing major ecological and agricultural damage to the Great Plains states; severe drought, heat waves and other factors were contributors. 1934 – Federal Housing Administration; 1934 – Johnson Act; 1934 - Indian Reorganization Act; 1934 – Philippine Commonwealth established; 1934 – Reciprocal Trade ...