Drought’s presence is currently being felt in 44% of the continental U.S., more than double what would historically be ...

Ninety years ago, the Black Sunday dust storm blasted the Great Plains with millions of tons of topsoil scoured from the once ...

Climate change is becoming a major driver of rising temperatures in the Great Plains. Summers are getting hotter, with heatwaves becoming more frequent and intense. People living in the region are ...

Before 1860, few people moved west to try to settle on the Great Plains. The poor soil and harsh climate discouraged them - along with the fact that the Plains were officially Indian territory ...

Tornado heaven My mind had good reason to set my nightmare there. The Great Plains of the U.S. gets more tornadoes—and more violent tornadoes—than anywhere else on Earth. Movies from The ...