Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Rainforests, Finds New Study

The Sahara Desert in North Africa and the Amazon rainforest in South America are separated by a distance of 3,000 miles, including a 1,600-mile expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. At first glance, the two regions would appear to have no connection to each other. However, according to a recent study published in the journal Geophysical Research…