Retreating Glaciers May Boost Dust Storms

A massive dust storm streaming from northern Africa across the
Atlantic Ocean in February 2006. Credit: SeaWiFS/NASA

From Cosmos:

SAN DIEGO: The retreat of glaciers and the loss of moisture from soil due to climate change will likely increase the number of large-scale dust storms, such as those that blanketed Sydney in 2009, scientists predict.

“Every year, hundreds of millions of tonnes of African dust are carried westward across the Atlantic to South America, the Caribbean and to the North America,” as well as across the Mediterranean and the Middle East, said Joseph Prospero, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Miami.

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