Strong winds, cold air bring sandstorms to northern China Under the influence of cold air and strong winds, blowing sand or dust is forecast from Monday to Tuesday in parts of northern China, with sandstorms expected in parts of the Inner Mongolia and Xinjia...

Strong winds, cold air bring sandstorms to northern China www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/6...

South Iceland Sand Drift Causes Poor Air Quality in Capital Region Most air quality monitors across the capital region are reporting high pollution levels as sand drifts from the south sweep through the area. According to RÚV, experts from the Reykjavík Public Health...

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Death in the Dust: Downburst wind, dry lakebeds and disaster at milepost 92 Byline: Stephanie Earls, Grace Brajkovich and O’Dell Isaac Pueblo County Emergency Management Coordinator Josh Johnson was on the road, negotiating details of a public safety power shutoff due to high...

Dust kills. The story of a recent tragedy in Colorado.
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Hidden soil fungi stole bacterial DNA to control the rain

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Hidden soil fungi stole bacterial DNA to control the rain

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Sahara dust doesn’t stay in the Sahara 😳 A massive plume swept from North Africa to Greece this month, turning skies orange and visibility near zero. Libya issued warnings, flights were diverted, and air quality hit dangerous levels in parts of the Mediterranean.

Dust storm hits Jeddah and other governorates of Makkah Jeddah and several other governorates of the Makkah region witnessed a dust storm on Saturday.

Dust storm hits Jeddah and other governorates of Makkah, Saudi Arabia saudigazette.com.sa/article/6606...

Seemed like a good idea for possible climate geoengineering... but looks like it's not going to be feasible. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Some sort of threshold must have been exceeded at about 0000Z UTC, because blowing dust began to be visible on GOES satellite in the Chihuahuan Desert then, from White Sands and the Paleolake Palomas basin. Not a heavy dust event by any means, and looks like it will miss El Paso. #nmwx #txwx

Meteorological record sheet from the weather observer at Beaver, Oklahoma for April 1935. Special entry: "Worst dust storm ever known in this country, on 14 of April."

How the Dust Bowl impacted New Mexico; Beyond the Forecast YouTube video by KRQE

How the Dust Bowl impacted New Mexico; Beyond the Forecast youtu.be/kz66BZelvJs?... via @YouTube

Unusual airborne toxin detected in the U.S. for the first time Scientists searching for air pollution clues stumbled onto something unexpected: toxic MCCPs drifting through the air for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. The likely source—fertilizer made fr...

Unusual airborne toxin detected in the U.S. for the first time www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Extinct ice age giants in Bender's Cave challenge existing climate records for the Edwards Plateau A recent study by Dr. John Moretti of the University of Texas and local caver John Young uncovered the remains of Ice Age megafauna, revealing an entirely new ecosystem that once thrived on the Edward...

Extinct ice age giants in Bender's Cave challenge existing climate records for the Edwards Plateau phys.org/news/2026-04...

Why are some skies bluer than others? Imagine it’s a regular Tuesday morning and you’re in Antarctica. Your eyes meet the sky, and the blue is so vivid it feels electric. The air is so clean you can just about taste it. Now, picture a dus...

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Kourtney Kardashian’s luxurious Coachella wellness retreat ‘destroyed’ by sandstorm Video showed umbrellas being ripped from the ground and decorations flying everywhere due to strong winds

Bummer.
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The night sky in the time of the dinosaurs

The night sky in the time of the dinosaurs earthsky.org/space/night-...

Ancestors of mammals laid eggs, says new fossil evidence

Ancestors of mammals laid eggs, says new fossil evidence earthsky.org/earth/ancest...

Neelam et al., Lancet Planetary Health: Association between Great Salt Lake desiccation, air quality, and major depressive episodes: an ecological study doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Neelam et al., Lancet Planetary Health: Association between Great Salt Lake desiccation, air quality, and major depressive episodes: an ecological study doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Lessons from Linking Great Salt Lake Desiccation and Depression - Eos By melding different expertise and merging disparate datasets, researchers revealed how lake bed dust may be affecting mental health outcomes across Utah.

Dust can be depressing.
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Baffling Geologists for 150 Years: New Study Finally Solves Green River Mystery New research may have solved a long-standing geological mystery in the United States that has puzzled scientists for more than 150 years. Scientists have spent more than a century trying to understand...

Baffling Geologists for 150 Years: New Study Finally Solves Green River Mystery scitechdaily.com/baffling-geo...

@corsiaq.bsky.social were you aware of this?

Interesting. The well-known scientific journal "Environmental Health Perspectives," formerly published by the NIH (and then terminated by the NIH last year), has been picked up by the American Chemical Society and will be published by them now.
pubs.acs.org/journal/evhpaz

Ten years ago today, I dreamed I went to a bar named "The Magma Chamber."
It was very popular with geologists.
Sounds like fun!

A little dust coming up from Owens Lake this afternoon. From the @alertcalifornia.bsky.social Cerro Gordo 1 webcam, look in the lower left.

Airborne nitrogen as NOx and ammonia has driven changes in plant communities, favouring more competitive species, phosphorous is often seen as more of a water transport issue (surface run-off), but is transported by wind.

www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/....

Atmospheric dust is a global nutrient source for plants via foliar uptake Atmospheric mineral dust is a critical nutrient supplier to marine ecosystems, but its role in terrestrial plant nutrition remains underexplored due to the assumption that nutrients are acquired sol.....

Loshkin et al., New Phytologist: Atmospheric dust is a global nutrient source for plants via foliar uptake doi.org/10.1111/nph.71112

'Dustchella' conditions hit Coachella as wind, dust advisory issued Gusty winds and blowing dust are creating “Dustchella” conditions as an air quality advisory remains in effect across the Coachella Valley.

'Dustchella' conditions hit Coachella as wind, dust advisory issued www.desertsun.com/story/entert... via @mydesert