Sandstorms, which are common over the Sahara, occur when large amounts of dust particles from the desert are swept up by strong winds. They can float for days or even […]
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Orbital View Of A Desert World: No, This Is Not Sietch Tabr On Arrakis
This is not Sietch Tabr On Arrakis. It is the Rihat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara – on our home world, Earth.
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Tricorder Tech: Pocket-sized DNA Sequencers Track Malaria Drug Resistance In Ghana In Near Real-time
Editor’s note: when you find yourself in a field situation with little resource – one where you are trying to trace the spread of a epidemic or the impact a […]
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Sahara Dust Can Enhance Removal Of Methane
The study by Maarten van Herpen et al., entitled “Photocatalytic Chlorine Atom Production on Mineral Dust-Sea Spray Aerosols over North Atlantic,” was funded in part by the NGO Spark Climate […]
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How A Planet’s Climate Affected The Evolution Of An Intelligent Species: Humans
Three distinct phases of climate variability in eastern Africa coincided with shifts in hominin evolution and dispersal over the last 620,000 years, an analysis of environmental proxies from a lake […]
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Dusty Iron in the Ancient Oceans
A recent study examines the affect of dust-borne iron on primary productivity in the oceans of the ancient Earth.