Why Sand Deserts Africa

10 November 2000 - 11:00am

Researchers find Saharan dust from Africa in the Amazon Basin in South America.

"Using satellites to help understand the Earth's climate is nothing new...[but a] NASA project is pressing them into service for ecological evaluations around the world that could revolutionize our understanding of precise changes in the land, oceans and atmosphere."

Source: Wired, November 10, 2000
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