Mongabay: Dust storm in Texas during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. New research finds that the American West is set to face a megadrought, worst than the Dust Bowl, in the next century due to climate change. Photo by: Public Domain.
In the recent film Interstellar, a mysterious phenomenon known as "the blight" is wiping out agriculture around the world until only corn-for some reason-survives. Humanity is on the brink of starvation. While the blight may be science fiction, global warming is not, and a new...