Space Daily May 20, 2026 • 23:00

Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on the Amazon rainforest, delivering roughly the exact amount of phosphorus the rainforest loses to runoff, which means the world's most productive forest is fertilised, year afte - Space Daily

Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on the Amazon rainforest, delivering roughly the exact amount of phosphorus the rainforest loses to runoff, which means the world's most productive forest is fertilised, year afte - Space Daily

The connection is one of those facts about the planet that nobody designed and almost no one outside the relevant atmospheric science literature knows about. Every year, somewhere between 180 and 200 million tons of fine particulate dust gets picked up from t…

The connection is one of those facts about the planet that nobody designed and almost no one outside the relevant atmospheric science literature knows about. Every year, somewhere between 180 and 200… [+8553 chars]
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