Green | July 22, 2008 | 4 comments

Saharan dust storms sustain life in Atlantic Ocean

source: http://weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com/2008/07/saharan-dust-storms-sustain-life-in.html

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Research at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean
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4 comments // Saharan dust storms sustain life in Atlantic Ocean

  • Egnatius212
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      Egnatius212  

    • Yet that same dust causes huge rates of asthma in the Carribean, and has killed most of the seafans on coral reefs, ans well as certain types of coral. I guess it's a give and take system.

    • 3 years ago
  • constantdisregard
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      constantdisregard  

    • I hate how interconnected everything in the world is! It is at once amazing and diabolical. This means there's yet another reason against my "we could replace the reflective qualities of the melted glaciers with a desert made of glass" hypothesis.

    • 3 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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