What is Drought?

El Niño Resources
Climate Prediction Center’s El Niño/La Niña Home Page
NOAA/PMEL/TAO’s El Niño Theme Page
Climate Diagnostics Center’s El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Information
El Niño, La Niña and the Western U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii
USA Today’s Resources: El Niño and La Niña
North American Climate Patterns Associated with El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Ocean Planet

Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC consists of a panel of scientists from more than 50 countries that study climate change and assess its potential impacts.
The World Meteorological Organization’s Statements on the Status of the Global Climate
United Nations Environment Program. This site contains a variety of information related to the environment and sustainable development, including issues involving climate change.
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG). ESIG focuses on the interactions between human activities and the environment.
Climate Impacts Group (CIG) Information Gateway. CIG has been developing an integrated assessment of climate impacts on the Pacific Northwest.
Impact of Climate Change and Land Use in the Southwestern United States, an on-line conference sponsored in summer of 1997 by the U.S. Geological Survey

The Dust Bowl
Dust Storms and Their Damage Photos from the collection of the Wind Erosion Research Unit of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service at Kansas State University.
The Dust Bowl (photos) A collection of 20 photos for sale from The Social Studies Web.
American Memory from the Library of Congress A multi-format look at daily life in Farm Security Administration migrant work camps in central California, 1940 and 1941.
Weedpatch Camp The story of the Arvin Federal Government Camp, immortalized as “Weedpatch Camp” in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.
Dust Bowl footage A short film clip of a dust storm during the 1930s. From the website of the USDA/ARS Wind Erosion Research Unit at Kansas State University.
Surviving the Dust Bowl The website of the 1998 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) film “Surviving the Dust Bowl”. Provides a good background on the people and events of the 1930s Dust Bowl.
1930s Dust Bowl Excerpts from “The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression” by Paul Bonnifield. On the Cimarron Heritage Center (Boise City, Oklahoma) website.
Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads Discussion and analysis of Guthrie’s “Dust Bowl Ballads” recording.
America from the Great Depression to World War II Photos from the Farm Security Administration—Office of War Information Collection, 1935–1945.
The Plow that Broke the Plains The story behind the 1936 documentary made for the Farm Security Administration on the destruction and suffering associated with drought in the early 1930s.