The skies over Europe recently took on a dramatic orange hue, leaving many residents staring in awe and sometimes confusion ...

A new map published on social media by the Met Office shows a huge swathe of Saharan dust particles bound for the UK. If you ...

When the trade winds blow across the Atlantic from the east in the early summer, they carry almost exclusively natural aerosols with them – above all Sahara dust. At other times of the year, the winds ...

This is an electron microscope image of a dust particle rounded by eolian transport. It originated in the Sahara desert and was found in 7.2 million year old sediments in Greece. Disclaimer ...

Desert dust represents the largest source of aerosols in the atmosphere by mass. These fine terrestrial particles emitted by wind action can be transported over varying distances. Thus, the Sahara and ...