A supercalima, a severe Saharan dust storm, has swept across the Canary Islands, leading to unhealthy air quality levels. Yellow weather warnings are in place, and authorities have declared a state of ...

Senegal’s capital shot to the top of an index that measures how poor air quality is in major cities after a cloud of dust ...

A MASS of air full of dust from the Sahara has enveloped the Canary Islands after the passage of the Atlantic storm Dorothea.

Saharan dust clouds are sand and dust particles that get lifted high up out of the North African desert and travel thousands ...

Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Gomera are the hardest hit, but air quality levels are still “moderate” across the other ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Mars during a global dust storm in 2018. Mars is capable of churning out some gnarly dust storms. Sometimes, these storms go global, turning the red ...

South-easterly winds have coated Britain in a toxic Saharan dust cloud. Combined with domestic pollution, the sand has caused air quality to plummet and engulfed many parts of the country in smog-like ...