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The Dust Bowl in the 1930s was one of the worst environmental
disasters of the 20th century. Intense dust storms relentlessly
pounded the southern Great Plains of the United States, wreaking
severe ecological damage, forcing 2.5 million people to leave the
region and claiming unnumbered lives, mainly from “dust
pneumonia.”
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