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Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
Big outbreaks of Saharan dust – tens of millions of tons of mineral dust hoisted from the sands of North Africa into the ...
A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...
This article from Retsch discusses sample preparation and challenges of mineral analysis in the mining industry.
In October of 1957, the USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite into orbit around Earth. Today, we're combining ...
A new device attached to the International Space Station provided first measurements of mineral dust on Earth, aiming to understand its effects on climate change.
A Saharan Dust plume off Africa's west coast is expected to gust into Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico this week suppressing tropical development.
Dust from the Sahara is threatening Europe’s solar energy plans by blocking sunlight and confusing prediction models. As ...
Why a plume of Saharan dust arriving in Houston is actually a good thing for hurricane season.
In clouds in the mid- to upper atmosphere where temperatures are between 32 and minus 36 F (0 to minus 38 C), ice crystals normally form around mineral dust particles from dry soils or biological ...
Saharan dust refers to fine particles of sand and mineral dust lifted from the Sahara Desert. The dust particles are small enough to be carried by strong winds (often referred to as the trade ...
Saharan dust refers to fine particles of sand and mineral dust lifted from the Sahara Desert. The dust particles are small enough to be carried by strong winds (often referred to as the trade ...