Satellite images show how a dust storm from drought-affected SA travelled across to Sydney. New research seeks to improve Australia’s understanding of dust storms.
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Dust storms are not unusual, but intense ones have a wide range negative impacts upon multiple socioeconomic sectors. How do we address them?
There’s growing interest in making the US food system more resilient and flexible, but soil – the origin of nearly everything we eat – is often left out of the picture.
The original Dust Bowl crashed US wheat production. Today, it would reduce global stocks by a third.
The haze now engulfing Sydney isn’t an isolated problem. Cities around the world struggle to manage the many sources of tiny airborne particles and the discomfort and illnesses these cause.
Trees clean urban air, store carbon, slow floodwaters and can be used to design safer streets. Scholars are starting to calculate what these services are worth – a fitting topic for Arbor Day.
The 1930s New Deal created a civilian army of conservationists who planted forests and restored wilderness.
New research projects that climate change could greatly increase airborne dust levels in the southwestern US, causing higher hospital admissions and premature deaths from heart and lung ailments.
Thousands of American women moved west to take advantage of wartime employment opportunities during WWII. For some, this version of the California dream was temporary; for others, it lasted a lifetime.
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Postdoctoral Scientist, George Washington University
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Senior Research Fellow in Chemistry-Climate Interactions, Harvard University
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Global Health, George Washington University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Agriculture and Environmental Change, Columbia University
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Researcher of the Atmospheric Composition group, in charge of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe,, Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Water and Food System Resilience, Stockholm University
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