Across the vast Atlantic, a plume of fine Saharan dust has begun its long journey toward North America. This natural atmospheric event unfolds each summer, carrying mineral particles thousands of ...

Cyprus is experiencing increasingly intense desert dust episodes as climate change accelerates changes in atmospheric conditions across the Levant.According to an international study involving ...

While particulate matter air pollution from human activity in transportation, households and industry is decreasing in Europe ...

A massive plume of Saharan dust is sweeping across the Atlantic, bringing impacts to the Gulf Coast.

A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight clouds ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert is currently moving across the Atlantic Ocean, which could make skies in the South hazy during early June. The Sahara Desert in North Africa spans more than 3.5 million ...

As climate change has made the Sahara desert drier, wind has blown more of its dust to Europe. This is worrying because ...

Airborne particulate matter from the deserts of North Africa is reaching Europe in ever-increasing quantities. This has ...

Desert storms that have sent massive plumes of dust across the oceans may have a small but significant effect on global temperatures, scientists say. New research found the microscopic particles ...

When winds loft fine desert dust high into the atmosphere, iodine in that dust can trigger chemical reactions that destroy some air pollution, but also let greenhouse gases stick around longer. The ...