The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

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 ...

More recently, in 2022, a dust storm developed over the same part of the Saharan desert and carried the dust north, making its way to parts of Europe. In this new effort, the research team ...

A destructive storm battered Augrabies, Northern Cape, tearing off roofs, damaging infrastructure, and leaving residents in ...

"That doesn't mean that it's not coming from African dust." Future studies could expand on this work by sampling before, during and after dust storms over multiple years. Sampling could also ...

A jaw-dropping visualization shows the huge Saharan dust cloud that swept across Europe in the last few days. On February 2, ...

A huge cloud of Saharan dust has swept across Europe in the last few days, already hitting Italy and continuing to spread ...

Every year, several hundred million tons of African dust are transported across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Summer storms can lift dust as high as 15,000 feet over ...

This challenges the long-held notion that north Africa and the Middle East ... our research suggests that dust emissions ...

a phenomenon that turns day into night and wreaks havoc everywhere from Northern China to sub-Saharan Africa. Sand and dust storms and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Sand and dust storms ...