October 12, 2018
Saharan dust a storm killer
Each year between 900 million and 4 billion metric tons of dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa is swept into the atmosphere and blown around …
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June 5, 2018
Weedy seeds gathered in once-green Sahara
Today, the vast and arid Sahara Desert seems an unlikely place to find early signs of seed gathering and plant cultivation in Africa, but new …
April 18, 2017
Tropical rainfall shifts resulted in greener Sahara
Six thousand years ago, the Sahara — today the world’s largest nonpolar desert, stretching over an area larger than the contiguous United States …
January 5, 2012
Blogging on EARTH: Second dispatches from EGU
EARTH’s Carolyn Gramling is in Vienna, Austria, at the European Geophysical Union meeting this week. Here are a few more sessions that she has …