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Prof. Toros says high-pressure systems and wind currents transport the dust, leading to changes in air quality and noticeable ...

Derived from haab, which means wind or blow in Arabic, haboobs are common in arid, desert regions such as the Sahara ... of the air kicks up dust, sand and debris with wind speeds of up to 60 mph ...

The big cloud systems over the tropics are especially interesting ... they carry almost exclusively natural aerosols with them – above all Sahara dust. At other times of the year, the winds blow in ...

I NEED not say that the information contained in M. H. J. H. Groneman's letter in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 337, was a most unexpected surprise. Nothing whatever seems to have been known in England ...

Two students from Northern Ireland are preparing to run the equivalent of over six marathons in a week for charity in the blistering Sahara Desert heat. Jake McBride and Ross Clarke, both 22 ...

The Sahara Desert, the world’s largest hot desert, is a place of extremes. Its harsh environment may seem uninhabitable, yet it is home to a fascinating array of wildlife that has adapted to survive ...

“The colorful gas clouds of the Tarantula Nebula are crossed by wispy tendrils and dark clumps of dust,” the Hubble astronomers said in a statement. “This dust is different from ordinary household ...

A massive circular structure in the Sahara Desert has puzzled scientists for decades. Spanning 25 miles, it is so large that it can be seen from space. It is known as the Richat Structure ...

An international team of climatologists has discovered that dust that reached Europe in March 2022 from the Sahara contained radioactive isotopes, but its source was not French nuclear testing in ...