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Dust Bowl 2.0 – they’re coming back!
Preface. Two forms of soil erosion may bring back the Great Depression Dustbowls. The first is that Great Plains grasslands have been replaced with corn crops to grow ethanol, which have increased the amount of dust 100% over the past … Continue reading
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Tagged biocrust, climate change, corn, cryptobiotic soil, dust, dustbowl, ethanol, water
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