Second in a two-part series on the effects of the long-range movement of dust. Part I: Dust, the Thermostat. Available at Dust, the Thermostat.
View from a hotel room in China one morning last April. Dust restricted visibility to about one-half block. LevinLaboratory dish hosts robust bacterial and fungal colonies–all seeded by microbes collected during an African dust-fall over St.
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