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Satellites have observed episodes of dust swirling across the basin in western China for decades.
Skies turned orange across the city of Ica as winds, locally known as Paracas winds, lofted dust from the coastal…
Now a flat and dusty desert playa, Oregon’s Alvord Desert once held an expansive lake that was the source of…
Owens Lake, an arid playa tucked between the Inyo Mountains and the Sierra Nevada in California, is the site of…
Researchers found a relationship between idle farmland and dust storms in one of the nation’s largest breadbaskets.
Spring and early summer in the Chihuahuan Desert are dusty, but El Paso and the Borderplex region are experiencing one…
Earth has an incredibly varied and ever-changing landscape—jagged mountains, arid deserts, lush rainforests, rolling wheat fields. Before NASA came on…
A thick dust plume in the Middle East dimmed skies and sent thousands to the hospital in April 2025.
In a seasonal spectacle, a spring dust storm swept through the dry, barren basin in western China.
