Thursday 20 December 2012

"Dust Bowl" Drought


The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. Filmmaker Ken Burns talks to BBC about the "dust bowl" drought


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20301451