A Saharan dust plume is expected to bring milky skies and hazy sunsets to Florida, the Southeast, and Gulf Coast.

The Saharan dust plume is about 2,000 miles wide from west to east and 750 miles long from north to south. Have you seen one before?

The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) is the dust that forms over the Sahara during the summer. It comprises sand and mineral particles swept up from 3.5 million square miles of the African desert.

An enormous cloud of dust from the Sahara is floating westward over the Atlantic Ocean, heading straight for Florida. The ...

A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is seen in these images blowing from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the ...

A plume of thick dust suspended in the atmosphere is moving westward across the Caribbean Sea and is expected to reach ...

one area remains as “Africa’s last colony”, leaving a black hole in global data. Western Sahara is effectively no mans land. It often appears un-labelled on world maps. Moreover, GDP ...

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the unique “geologic fingerprints” for most of the African continent. The map ...