A dried lakebed in Africa's Chad sends 27.7 million tonnes of dust across 5,000 km of Atlantic Ocean each The Economic TimesEvery year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust lift off the Bodélé Depression in Chad, cross 5,000 kilometres of Atlantic Ocean, and settle on the Amazon rainforest, delivering the phosphorus that keeps the world's largest jungle from starving its own soil ScienceBlog.com
A dried lakebed in Africa's Chad sends 27.7 million tonnes of dust across 5,000 km of Atlantic Ocean each The Economic TimesEvery year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust lift off the Bodélé Depression in Chad, cross 5,000 kilometres of Atlantic Ocean, and settle on the Amazon rainforest, delivering the phosphorus that keeps the world's largest jungle from starving its own soil ScienceBlog.com
