The Arkansas Storm Team is a collaboration of ... This is a large plume of Saharan Dust that has spread across the Atlantic ...

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.

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 ...

This week North Texas will experience a phenomenon from across the Atlantic: a plume of Saharan dust. It'll likely arrive Wednesday and it is expected to linger through Thursday. Saharan dust is ...

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 ...

In 1977, the Environmental Protection Agency created a Clean Air Act mandate for states to put forth plans to reduce regional ...

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 ...

“Here we show that iron bound to dust from the Sahara blown westward over the Atlantic has properties that change with the distance traveled: the greater this distance, the more bioreactive the ...

As dust-laden iron travels farther from the Sahara, atmospheric reactions make it increasingly accessible to support life.

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 ...

And she thinks we could see more of it. She said: "It is possible for some further Saharan dust to be deposited by the showers tonight and tomorrow, but then a cold front moves northeast across ...

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 ...