These events are caused by dust plumes from the Sahara desert that travel thousands of kilometres across the Mediterranean. As climate change alters the world’s largest desert, Europe is finding ...

High temperatures are also known to increase the permeability of the intestinal lining, leading to so-called leaky gut.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new report by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found that sand and dust storms are leading to ...

For anyone wondering whether intense dust storms, such as the haboob that enveloped Phoenix this week, are possible in Southern California, the answer is yes. They’ve hit in the recent past and are a ...

Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, played a leading role in driving some of the most dramatic climate shifts in ...