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

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

Last Saturday’s storm started near Bloomington, Illinois, before traveling northeastward. It was the first such storm of this ...

open image in gallery A historic dust storm hit Illinois last weekend. The haboob may have sent lead, pesticides and other worrying toxins into downtown Chicago skies (Eric Lenning/NWS Chicago ...

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

According to the National Weather Service, the last time a dust storm affected Chicago was on May 31, 1985. Newspaper accounts noted the visibility in downtown Chicago got down to four miles.

Residents across vast portions of the United States should prepare for diminished air quality and hazy skies from two ...

A deadly severe weather outbreak spawned at least one tornado in 22 states from May 15 - 21. Among the hardest hit states ...

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 ...

"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 ...