Ancient Amazonians Intentionally Created Fertile "Dark Earth"

[Judi Lynn]

5. No one could have imagined how destructive all that dust was going to be.

When I saw the photo of a man and his two sons walking through the dust storm to get inside, my thought, too, was what on earth would that do to their lungs.

What a shame people were caught unprepared for so much trouble once the storms started.

I learned this afternoon from a journalist who spent ages working on a project concerning the Ogallala Aquifer throughout the Midwest that the resource has been wildly depleted by giant agriculture concerns and it is widely feared that the same situation could return if deep changes don't get underway quickly.

It's such a shame your mom and her sisters and others were permanently afflicted with respiratory trouble. Had never heard about that "side effect" of that horrible era.