Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Rainforests, Finds New Study

February 25, 2015

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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…