Source: Bryce Anderson, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 6/26/20


Over the past 12 days, an immense plume of dust from the Sahara Desert in North Africa has gathered and spread westward, all the way to the Caribbean islands and into North America -- a 5,000-mile trek. By some measurements, this is the largest Sahara dust cloud in 50 years. The thick dust has notably affected air quality in the Caribbean islands. Air quality deterioration spread across the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula beginning over...

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