Strong trade winds over northwest Africa pick up large amounts of Saharan dust and carry it thousands of miles over the Atlantic Ocean, through the Caribbean Sea, and then onto the Texas Gulf Coast.

The Saharan dust is described as dust particles lifted from the Sahara Desert that blows through ... the way from Africa and then came over to Texas," said Harish Krishnamoorthy, associate ...

A new study of seafloor sediments suggests reactions in the atmosphere convert dust-borne iron into forms more readily taken ...

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 ...

A dramatic orange haze has descended over Athens as clouds of dust have blown in from the Sahara desert. It is one of the worst such episodes to hit Greece since 2018, according to officials.

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days. Lakes have appeared in the Sahara after a ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.