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The Dust Bowl: How Plowing Prairies Led to Ecological Disaster in the US
In the 1920s, American farmers plowed millions of acres of prairie land for wheat cultivation. When a severe drought hit in 1931, the soil, no longer held by grass, became airborne, leading to the devastating Dust Bowl.
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