Dust from the Sahara blew thousands of miles to Athens, Greece, this week, resulting in a striking natural event that appeared to position the Acropolis, at least momentarily, on Mars, giving ...

Massive plumes of smoke from wildfires in New Mexico have been caught on satellite images at the exact same moment a dust storm swept ... The shuttle with four space tourists aboard was also ...

When the trade winds blow across the Atlantic from the east in the early summer, they carry almost exclusively natural aerosols with them – above all Sahara dust. At other times of the year, the winds ...

Dust swept from the Sahara desert provides life at the bottom of the marine food chain with a critical nutrient. Without the ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert ... of wind-blown dust preserved in deep-sea ...

Elad Dente from University of Haifa, led by their student Joëlle Rieder at ETH Zurich. The Sahara Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, has not always been as arid as it is today.