My latest from Senegal. https://www.postandcourier.com/environment/lessons-of-senegal-what-an-old-city-in-west-africa-teaches-about-rising-waters/article_8e16beb6-ffba-11ed-afea-0f0af84984ee.html#tncms-source=latest_posts
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Saharan dust acts like a hurricane switch that turns them on and off. Read my latest in The Post and Courier about how climate change may affect this switch. The Saharan Connection: Will hurricanes hammer the East Coast? We traveled to the Sahara Desert to find answers. 1. Sun Deep in the Sahara Desert , the sun heats the sand, and the air above it rises. The rising air carries dust — orange dust from Mauritania and Mali, white dust from an ancient lake in Chad. Clouds of dust that soon flow into a jet stream moving westward across Africa, an ochre haze moving toward a place where our worst hurricanes are born. Read more here