Extreme weather events like dust storms, floods, and high winds are spreading dangerous fungal spores. Climate change is causing fungi to become more resilient and expand into new geographic areas.

Dust storms regularly affect northern China, including its capital, Beijing. In recent years, Chinese scientists and officials have traced the source of the dust storms to its neighbor Mongolia. Much ...

The scale would rate a storm based on the amount of dust in the air, as well as other components, researchers say.

This figure summarizes the changes in dust emissions and source contributions of each large dust event across Central East Asia from 2000 to 2023. Bar graph (a) shows the annual average contribution ...

A massive haboob blanketed parts of Arizona on Aug. 25, bringing with it intense rains and high winds that caused hundreds of flight delays and left thousands without power, USA TODAY Network reported ...

A moon that isn’t blue, an industrial index that reveals more than factory output, and a massive dust storm that sweeps ...