We are environmentalresearchers whose work shows a need for better public health practices to protect people from dust storm pollutants. This work includes analyzing satellite images, creating simulation models for predicting dust particle transport, and identifying each dust storm's particle content. Public health recommendationsWe offer several practices here that we believe would help public health agencies successfully tackle the problem of polluted dust storms. One physical catalog for dust storm particles already exists at the 19th-century dust storm archive kept by the Natural History Museum at Humboldt University in Berlin. As deserts increasingly adjoin cities, industry and transportation corridors, desert dust storms will increasingly mirror human activity on land.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 02, 2023 00:01 UTC