Dust from the Sahara desert will cloud the skies of the US southeast this week in an annual weather event that doesn't always reach the American continent. The dust clouds form as a result of an ...

The first big surge of Saharan dust from Africa has been sweeping through the Atlantic and Caribbean the past few days and has now spread into Florida. Here's what you need to know about this dust: In ...

A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The cloud extended some 2,000 ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The ...

The Sahara is the largest source of aeolian dust in the world, with annual production rates of approximately 180-200 million tons/year, which is almost half of all aeolian desert inputs to the ocean.