Is Sahara Desert Dust Secretly Feeding the Amazon? The science behind a 10,000-mile journey
[ad_ About 27 million tons of Saharan dust delivers about 22,000 tons of phosphorus to the Amazon annually. Image: NASA In 2015, scientists reported evidence that vast plumes of dust from the Sahara Desert help replenish phosphorus in the Amazon rainforest, linking the world’s largest desert to its largest rainforest in what researchers described as…