African Dust Carries Microbes Across the Ocean: Are They Affecting Human and Ecosystem Health?

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produced January, 2003

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"African Dust Carries Microbes Across the Ocean: Are They Affecting Human and Ecosystem Health?" is a four-page full-color discussion of how atmospheric transport of dust from northwest Africa to the western Atlantic Ocean region may be responsible for a number of environmental hazards, including the demise of Caribbean corals; red tides; amphibian diseases; increased occurrence of asthma in humans; and oxygen depletion (eutrophication) in estuaries.

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