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Amazon Rainforest's Soil Is Fertilized By Saharan Dust Cloud

Mar 2, 2026
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Every year wind-swept dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa travels over the Atlantic Ocean, which can be seen by satellites. The dust plume “regularly fertilizes soils” in the Amazon rainforest in South America. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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