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Research published recently in the journal Science concluded that the Southwestern U.S. has already transitioned into permanent dust-bowl conditions.
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Research published recently in the journal Science concluded that the Southwestern U.S. has already transitioned into permanent dust-bowl conditions.
The American Dust Bowl Returns Mark Svenvold 2010
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The directors of Exxon should be forced to live in a dust-bowl desert for funding climate change denial.
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The political lobby for cotton is one of the strongest in US agriculture, a legacy of the post-Depression, dust-bowl era, when embattled farmers had to be helped back on to their feet.
The desperate plight of Africa's cotton farmers Elizabeth Day 2010
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Research published recently in the journal Science concluded that the southwestern U.S. has already transitioned into permanent dust-bowl conditions.
What Happens Next: A Special Report on Energy, Finance and Society Through 2020 2010
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The Tiger Woods Dubai: a dust-bowl, an empty car park, an "Arabian palace" as real as a Hollywood film set.
Tiger Woods's Dubai dream evaporates in the desert Lawrence Donegan 2010
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Soy bean crops have always been used in farm production to add nitrogen back into the soil whether or not it was grown for food as well – that makes for healthy soil, not a dust-bowl situation.
TRANSPORTATION TUESDAY: World’s First Biodiesel Jet! | Inhabitat 2007
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In addition to rustling, the rival clans, who live near the border with lawless Somalia, have battled for decades over access to water and pasture in the dust-bowl region.
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That fool's errand has wrought as much havoc on the American working environment as the dust-bowl thirties did, drying up and blowing away a fertile Oklahoma agricultural environment.
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Thus roads like Route 66 were not merely the backdrop to epic migrations like the dust-bowl exodus.
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