As climate change increases heat and dryness in Southern California and the Central Valley, dust storms pose an increasing ...

Researchers have so far overlooked the impact of dust particles on the mass extinction of species following the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

By mass, the comet is around 80 percent dust and just 20 percent ice, notes McCaughrean. This dusty abundance also suggests that most of the streaks in the foreground are dust particles rather ...

Dust particles from deserts promote ice formation in clouds. This discovery highlights the importance of aerosols for understanding cloud behaviour, predicting precipitation, and assessing the role of ...

A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight ...