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abakker
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No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-yea...
Where does this dust end up? Into the oceans? Because iron-rich dust entering the oceans helps create nutrition for algae which can absorb CO2
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joecool1029
11 days ago
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Believe it or not at least 40 million tons of it ends up in the Amazon basin each year where it does have an effect on the plants there:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014...
It goes elsewhere too, as expected.
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consumer451
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In South Florida you can sometimes get Sahara dust on your car after a rain.
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consp
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N/Nw Europe also has sand rains. Not seen it this year yet though.
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