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Watch: Massive Dust Storm Consumes Lubbock Airport

High Plains Public Radio

Published June 7, 2016 at 8:10 AM CDT

The Washington Post recently published this video of a Haboob descending on the airport in Lubbock on May 29.

A haboob is a massive and intense dust storm.

Watch here:

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Soil conservation in the U.S. started with this agency 90 years ago. Now its future is uncertain

Anna Pope

The Dust Bowl led to the creation of what is now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Just as it celebrates a major milestone, the agency is dealing with job losses, massive proposed budget cuts and talk of consolidation.
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Oklahomans are remembering Black Sunday, 90 years later

Anna Pope

Ninety years this week, Oklahomans were met with a large wall of rolling black dust and sand, a day now known as "Black Sunday."
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A deadly dust storm highlights dangers of drier weather and top soil loss in the central U.S.

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Here comes the haboob: Texas High Plains getting walloped by dust storms

Jayme Lozano | The Texas Tribune

High Plains residents are used to wind and dust, but an ongoing drought and recent tropical-storm-level winds have brought some epic dust storms.
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A hotter, drier future could change how we eat, how we breathe and where we get our water

Elizabeth Rembert

Think of this year’s drought as a sort of dress rehearsal to consider the drier, hotter future that scientists predict climate change has in store. Long-lasting droughts could alter the way we live.