A huge cloud of Saharan dust has darkened the skies over parts of the Caribbean. The dust has been moving from Africa over the Atlantic Ocean. On Sunday it reached Puerto Rico and has since ...

Over time, atmospheric chemical reactions can make iron in dust from the Sahara easier for organisms to take in, helping to create biodiversity hot spots.

This is a large plume of Saharan Dust that has spread across the Atlantic Ocean from Northern Africa. How does it happen? It ...

The study relies on prior work that analyzed dust distribution from North African sources including the Sahara. The Saharan dust cloud now darkening the U.S. Gulf Coast has made headlines for ...

Scientists from the US measured the relative amounts of ‘bioreactive’ iron in four sediment cores from the bottom of the Atlantic. They showed for the first time that the further dust is blown from ...

The Saharan dust cloud is formed when hot air and dust particles mix in Northern Africa and are carried across the Atlantic Ocean by powerful winds. Such events are fairly common and happen at a ...

A large plume of Saharan dust from Africa, over 2,000 miles wide, is surging across the Caribbean Sea. It’ll push into the Gulf of Mexico and parts of the United States, including Florida ...

In 2020, a single Saharan dust canceled 1,000 flights over the Canary Islands, costing over $19 million in only three days. Australia’s Sydney Airport is another internationally known victim of ...

Despite rain overnight, the mucky-looking dusting on vehicles can be put down to a phenomenon called Saharan Dust. It occurs ...

It seems to be almost a yearly occurrence; a dust cloud filled with sand from the Sahara blows its way over the UK, leaving cars covered in a fine layer of dusty sand. The Saharan dust ...

Weak low pressure in the Mediterranean set up southerly winds from Saharan Africa across the Mediterranean into Europe, drawing dust into Italy and southern France. High-pressure ridging from the ...

South-easterly winds have coated Britain in a toxic Saharan dust cloud. Combined with domestic pollution, the sand has caused air quality to plummet and engulfed many parts of the country in smog-like ...