A giant dust storm rolled through Tanami in Australia’s Northern Territory on November 30, shocking local workers as they ...

If you've lived here even a short time, you know the drill: One moment, the sky is clear. The next, visibility drops to zero as a massive dust storm engulfs the landscape. During the monsoon, a wall ...

In the remote Tanami Desert of Australia's Northern Territory, a powerful dust storm swept across the landscape on November ...

A violent weekend dust storm wreaked havoc on the annual Burning Man festival as it swept through Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, but organizers reopened gates Monday to festivalgoers amid new threats of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Sahara Desert is the world's largest hot desert and third-largest desert overall behind Antarctica and the Arctic. The Sahara spans over 3.5 million square miles across North ...

Boise State University physics professor Brian Jackson brought a team of scientists to the Alvord Desert in southeast Oregon in June 2024 to study dust devils — small whirling cyclones of dust that ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Each year, as the Atlantic hurricane season begins, one consistent and powerful atmospheric feature makes its presence known: dust. Not just any dust, but vast plumes originating from ...

A team of researchers has been studying meteorological and air quality data collected during the 189 dust storms we’ve ...

Using 35 years of satellite data, researchers observed a consistent pattern for ice cloud formation stemming from desert dust in the atmosphere. The way clouds freeze is vital piece of the puzzle for ...