The majority of student researchers selected to present at the recent National Science to Policy Network (NSPN) Symposium ...

Dust storms can occur anywhere there’s loose soil and wind. Parts of Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico and Texas have also ...

When a thick wall of dust rolled across Northern Illinois a little over a week ago, it looked like something out of a Mad Max ...

Chicago’s first dust storm in over 90 years was likely toxic and full of farm chemicals - The historic event may have carried ...

Dust storms have become a growing problem in the Midwest states, with tragic consequences. While changes in weather patterns ...

According to the National Weather Service, the last time a dust storm affected Chicago was on May 31, 1985. Newspaper ...

Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is a present and escalating crisis that affects every corner of the globe.

"A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn," wrote John Steinbeck in Chapter 1 of "The Grapes of Wrath," his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

The dust that hit Chicago was windblown from farm fields in Central Illinois. Charlie De Mar talked with an expert.

Now that the dust has settled, many are wondering just how and why such an out-of-the-ordinary weather phenomenon happened.

Binks was found by a Good Samaritan in Illinois and with the help of a microchip hunter, they were able to track down the ...

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly ...