A colossal cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert is currently sweeping across the United States. This massive dust plume, spanning over 2,000 miles in width and 750 miles in length, had already ...

Sandstorms, which are common over the Sahara, occur when large amounts of dust particles from the desert are swept up by strong winds. They can float for days or even weeks, depending on how dry ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest.

A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The cloud extended some ...

The dust concentration was high, at .55 aerosol optical depth, the highest amount so far this year, said Yidiana Zayas, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Fast forward a few thousand years and add in some natural climate change and this massive lake turns into the world’s largest hot desert called the Sahara and takes up a large part of northern Africa.