NASA video shows how dust from Sahara Desert fuels Amazon rain forest

Globe & Mail | February 25, 2015

[rickmichaels]

How dust from the Sahara is fuelling the Amazon

[Paladin2]

Goal of the study is to make models to predict changes in this dust transport given various global warming scenarios . Therefore it’s just another plan to tap the work of tax slaves to support academic luxury.

[molson209]

The Earth doing it’s thing ,Baby

[mosesdapoet]

The dust contains minerals which is picked up by the earth’s magnetic field and deposited there by the wind.

[Sgt_Schultze]

So does South America owe Africa reparations too?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

But, wait! The Amazon is supposed to be desert or grass land right now due to all the logging we were warned about thirty years ago!

What happened!

[minnesota_bound]

and smog from China crosses into California and beyond.

[SunkenCiv]

• Study Confirms Ancient River Systems in Sahara 100,000 Years Ago [2013]
• Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation and chemistry [2013]
• Lost Civilization Discovered in Sahara Desert [2011]
• Fall of Gaddafi opens a new era for the Sahara's lost civilisation [ Garamantes ] [2011]
• The Lost City: A discovery in the desert could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt [2010]
• Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain [2009]
• Graves Found From Sahara's Green Period [2008]
• US scientists find stone age burial ground in Sahara [2008]
• The African Source Of The Amazon's Fertilizer [2006]
• Sahara Desert Was Once Lush and Populated [2006]
• Ancient lakes of the Sahara [2006]
• Prehistoric Desert Town Found In Western Sahara (15,000 Years Old) [2004]
• Scientists Explore Lakefront Property, in the Sahara [2004]
• Disease Dustup [2003]
• African Ice Core Analysis Reveals Catastrophic Droughts, Shrinking Ice Fields, Civilization Shifts [2002]

[blam]

I used to live on the Atlantic coast, half-way down Florida (Melbourne). I often had African orange dust on my car.

I think this may be a bigger story related to the dust.

Bahamas Creation Linked to African Dust

Cyanobacteria fed by nutrients carried over the Atlantic in African dust may have initiated the process by which, over millions of years, calcium carbonate collected to build the Bahamas.

[blam]

African dust carries microbes across the ocean: are they affecting human and ecosystem health?

[glock rocks]

In other words:

Nasa needs more funding because dust.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, everyone knows the Bahamas are the former hills of Atlantis. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Evolution in Your Face
by Patrick Huyghe
Omni

Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is home to more than 300 species of cichlids. These fish, which are popular in aquariums, are deep-bodied and have one nostril, rather than the usual two, on each side of the head. Seismic profiles and cores of the lake taken by a team headed by Thomas C. Johnson of the University of Minnesota, reveal that the lake dried up completely about 12,400 years ago. This means that the rate of speciation of cichlid fishes has been extremely rapid: something on average of one new species every 40 years!

[SunkenCiv]

Ooooh, heeeeyyyy, this was linked on that page, I’m going to post it:

Oil-Eating Microbes Have Worldwide Underground Connections
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/oil-eating-microbes-have-worldwide-underground-connections/