Iron bound to dust from the Sahara blown westward over the Atlantic has properties that change with the distance traveled.

The answer is found on the other side of the Atlantic, where the Sahara Desert just had weeks of unprecedented rainfall.

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

September 22, 2024: In the African country of Mali, Russian Wagner Group mercenaries went looking for some low-risk, high-paying work during July 2024. What they got was a massacre that left all the ...

On September 9, jihadist militants launched a coordinated assault on several Christian villages in Burkina Faso, resulting in ...

Floods across a swath of central and West Africa have displaced at least 2.9 million people, killed about 1,000 and are ...

Floods across a swath of central and West Africa have displaced at least 2.9 million people, killed about 1,000 and are ...

was launched in 2007 to help combat desertification. Originally intended to be a belt of trees planted for thousands of miles across the continent’s Sahel region, the initiative has morphed into ...

a project adopted by the African Union in 2007 and initially conceived as a means to prevent desertification in the Sahel region and stop the expansion of the Sahara Desert, by planting a wall of ...

Conversely, moving against the global trend, regions such as Alaska, the eastern United States, parts of South America, Pakistan and the Sahel desert zone in northern Africa had lower-than-average ...

Nevertheless, the long journey through the desert would be fraught with danger. “I had no choice,” said Hamid. “I was too scared that they would come after me too.” After paying a hefty fee for ...

The shift has prompted more rain in parts of the world that don't normally see high amounts of precipitation, Zoom Earth said, like the Sahel and Sahara deserts. The Sahara Desert, which is known ...