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This photo of Babb alone was taken by her husband, James Wong Howe. (Courtesy of Joanne Dearcopp, literary executor of the Babb estate)

Steinbeck plundered her work for "Wrath"

Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Sarah Paulson in "Hold Your Breath" (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures)

"Hold Your Breath" is a dusty horror

Gabriella Ferrigine
Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, April 18, 1935. (Wikimedia Commons / NOAA / George E. Marsh Album)

The disaster that prophesied our future

Matthew Rozsa
Near the site of the proposed Donald J. Trump Highway in Boise City, Oklahoma (Russell Cobb)

Oklahoma's Trump highway: Going nowhere

Russell Cobb
The Dust Bowl, a windmill in the Netherlands, a Hurricane, and an Easter Island head (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Sepia Times/NASA/Michael Dunning/Adam Jones)

How civilizations thwart extinction

Matthew Rozsa
Cows graze in the fields and farms. (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)

BLM wants to go back to the Dust Bowl

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Firefighters try to control a back burn as the Carr fire continues to spread on July 31, 2018. (Getty/Mark Ralston)

California burns, Trump tweets ignorance

Carl Pope
(NASA Goddard/YouTube)

US faces historic megadrought

Joanna Rothkopf
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