We review the major features of desert dust outbreaks that are relevant to the assessment of
dust impacts upon human health. Our ultimate goal is to provide scientific guidance for the …

Billions of tons of desert dust move through the atmosphere each year. The primary source
regions, which include the Sahara and Sahel regions of North Africa and the Gobi and Takla …

Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Microbes are difficult to culture. Consequently, the primary source of information about a
fundamental evolutionary topic, life's diversity, is the environmental distribution of gene …

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a
vital component of the environment. This is because of their role in biogeochemical cycling …

Bacteria are ubiquitous in the atmosphere, with concentrations of bacterial cells typically
exceeding 1× 10 4 m− 3 over land. Numerous studies have suggested that the presence of …

Desert winds aerosolize several billion tons of soil-derived dust each year, including
concentrated seasonal pulses from Africa and Asia. These transoceanic and …

Dust storms are an important environmental problem worldwide. The main sources of dust
storms include the Sahara, the Middle East, and central and northeastern Asia. Dust …

Background The spread of influenza and highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) presents
a significant threat to human health. Avian influenza outbreaks in downwind areas of Asian …

In this work, a sand and dust storm vulnerability mapping (SDS-VM) approach is developed
to model the vulnerability of urban blocks to SDS using GIS spatial analysis and a range of …