Billowing clouds of the stuff struck a severe blow to the American heartland during the 1930s, ruining wheat crops and ...

Walvis Bay in Namibia is home to the largest solar sea-salt production plant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plant is famous for ...

The reddish sand and dust from the Sahara that fell in Europe, including Luxembourg, in 2022 contained certain radioactive ...

The term dust is used 16 times in the book of Job. The idea associated with dust is that it is “nothing.” Dust is associated with lowliness or humility. When Job repented in dust and ashes, he was ...

This is because Saharan dust blown in from the east could be an irritant or trigger for their health condition. Aemet has recommended people using Tenerife’s mountain roads exercise “extreme ...

However, the only solace is that researchers also concluded that the radioactivity detected during the Saharan dust cloud was way down below levels that are thought to be unsafe for humans.

Regardless of the various conspiracy theories, Saharan dust still plays an important role in influencing our planet's climate system, as well as solar radiation, cloud cover, and even air quality.

A jaw-dropping visualization shows the huge Saharan dust cloud that swept across Europe in the last few days. On February 2, 2025, residents in southern Italy were affected by a cloud of dust ...

Fletcher said the international rulings in favor of Western Saharan independence still lay the groundwork for further political efforts by the Polisario Front. “These international decisions are ...

Now, a couple of weeks since DeepSeek’s big moment, the dust has settled a bit. The news cycle has moved on to calmer things, like the dismantling of long-standing US federal programs ...