Dust from distant lands may affect climate and health in the Americas and Europe
Monday, February 22, 2010 - 10:14
in Earth & Climate
Residents of the southern United States and the Caribbean have seen it many times during the summer months - a whitish haze in the sky that seems to hang around for days. The resulting thin film of dust on their homes and cars actually is soil from the deserts of Africa, blown across the Atlantic Ocean...