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4 days ago · GENEVA, Switzerland — The amount of dust in the air eased slightly in 2023, the United Nations said Friday, warning that poor environmental management was fuelling sand and dust storms. The UN's ...
5 days ago · Crossing borders silently and impacting millions globally, sand and dust storms are the 'underappreciated' extreme weather events, yet they profoundly affect the environment and the lives of hundreds of millions worldwide, across all continents. According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), every year, an estimated 2 billion tonnes of sand and dust, an amount equal in ...
4 days ago · Every year 2,000 million tons of dust enters the air, darkening skies and air quality in areas thousands of km away and impacting economies, ecosystems, weather and climate. Hotspots. 2023 saw slightly a slight drop in dust emissions globally but concentrations increased in Central Asia, northern and central China and southern Mongolia.
2 days ago · The Atlantic appears to have now taken the lead, with dust levels not seen in years across parts of the basin. Satellite measurements indicate intensive plumes of dust, called the Saharan Air ...
4 days ago · The difference between distance and dust. Measuring the distance to truly remote objects like galaxies, quasars and galaxy clusters is a crucial task in astrophysics, particularly when it comes to studying the early Universe, but it’s a difficult one. Only in the case of a few nearby objects like the Sun, planets and some nearby stars can we ...
1 day ago · 2024 Atlantic hurricane season tracks through July 15, 2024. A surge of dust: One reason for the calmer tropics is a massive push of dusty air westward across the Atlantic Basin from Africa's ...
4 days ago · Saharan dust plays a dual role in the atmosphere, suppressing hurricane formation with its dry air and cooling effect on ocean waters. However, if it settles over land, it can cause hazy skies and ...
