Is Arctic warming behind a monster Saharan dust storm?
The Sahara Desert is the world's biggest source of dust and in 2020, it broke the June record for sending the largest and thickest dust cloud toward the Americas.
The Sahara Desert is the world's biggest source of dust and in 2020, it broke the June record for sending the largest and thickest dust cloud toward the Americas.
Earth Sciences
Dec 3, 2020
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Dust is a key component of Earth's climate system. When it interacts with clouds, oceans and the sun's radiation, it has an overall impact on our planet's living systems, affecting everything from weather and rainfall to ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2020
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The Sahara Desert is vast, generously dusty, and surprisingly shy about its age. New research looking into what appears to be dust that the Sahara blew over to the Canary Islands is providing the first direct evidence from ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2019
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A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami's (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that smoke from fires in Africa may be the most important source of a key nutrient—phosphorus—that ...
Environment
Jul 29, 2019
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"It's a warning," Catherine Bernard said gravely as she surveyed rows of withered vines at her wine estate in southern France, where a blazing Sun scorched part of the harvest.
Environment
Jun 30, 2019
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On 1st June 2019, the European Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core project started with the aim of drilling for and recovering ice from up to 1.5 million years ago in Antarctica. The previous EPICA project recovered ice from 800,000 ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 5, 2019
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When it comes to understanding future climate, the south Asian summer monsoon offers a paradox. Most climate models predict that as human-caused global warming increases, monsoon rain and wind will become more intense—but ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2019
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NASA officials say that some rare and distinct meteorites found on Earth were actually blasted off Mars by a large impact event. One such rock from the red planet made its way to an Army laboratory recently for a special ...
Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2019
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The Sahara desert is one of the harshest, most inhospitable places on the planet, covering much of North Africa in some 3.6 million square miles of rock and windswept dunes. But it wasn't always so desolate and parched. Primitive ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 2, 2019
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Robots invaded the Sahara Desert for Europe's largest rover field test, taking place in a Mars-like part of Morocco. For two weeks three rovers and more than 40 engineers tested automated navigation systems at up to five ...
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2018
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