This is a large plume of Saharan Dust that has spread across the Atlantic Ocean from Northern Africa. How does it happen? It starts out when thunderstorms over Africa put out strong downdrafts ...

A significant intrusion of Saharan dust over the tropical Atlantic Ocean can alter the environment enough that it stifles tropical cyclone development. MUST SEE: North Atlantic temperatures are ...

The dust has been moving from Africa over the Atlantic Ocean. On Sunday it reached Puerto Rico and has since covered Cuba and parts of Mexico. The Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink ... More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip over and under each other — can push land to open or close oceans.

Summer storms can lift dust as high as 15,000 feet over the African deserts and then out across the Atlantic ... particularly fast — the Indian Ocean — Hurrell's models suggest that the ...

A research team led by the University of Liverpool has found that the North Atlantic Ocean has a memory of approximately one ...

Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of nutrient-rich dust landing in the sea, causing ocean algae to grow rapidly.

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a novel method to measure ocean memory, revealing that the North Atlantic Ocean retains memory for nearly two decades—far longer than ...

Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of nutrient-rich dust landing in the sea, causing ocean algae to grow rapidly.