Tons of Sahara Desert dust crosses the Atlantic to fertilize the Amazon rainforest

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New data from a NASA satellite reveals just how much the world's largest rainforest relies on the world's largest desert.

Every year, nearly 28 million tons of dust is swept from the Sahara Desert across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in South America, where...

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