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.

A massive cloud of dust that has traveled thousands of miles from the Sahara Desert is expected to reach Florida as early as the afternoon of June 4 before spreading through the Gulf Coast and ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A vast cloud of Sahara dust is blanketing the Caribbean as it heads to the U.S. with a size and concentration that experts say hasn’t been seen in half a century. Air ...