reportage Harvest of Dust: The New American Dust Bowl The aquifer is dropping three feet a year. The wheat is still going in. Notes from the high plains. D Declan Faust December 14, 2025 · 8 min read · Harvest of Dust. Photo: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Longform's reader requires JavaScript. The full text of this story is available through our content service.