Study:More than half of the dust needed for fertilizing the Brazilian rainforest is supplied by a valley in northern Chad, according to an international research team headed by Dr. Ilan Koren of the Institute’s Environmental Sciences and Energy Research Department.
It has been known for more than a decade that the existence of the Amazon rainforest depends on a supply of minerals washed off by rain from the soil in the Sahara and blown across the Atlantic by dust.
The data revealed that a total of some 50 million tons of dust make their way from Africa to the Amazon region every year.
Science Daily, Dec 2006
Comments:
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