Dry and dusty across Central Texas today, with two dust devils spotted spinning across the plains! 🌪️🌪️ Meanwhile, building heat across the Southern Plains is setting the stage for weekend storms. #TXwx

Lake Las Vegas residents concerned about dust from former mine site fox5vegas.com/2025/10/15/lak…

Ardon-Dryer Karin Ardon-Dryer, Communications Earth & Environment: Minute-scale convective dust events are overlooked in urban air quality monitoring. doi.org/10.1038/s43247…

Kaur et al., Atmospheric Pollution Research: Long-term PM2.5 source apportionment at 12 sites in the western United States from 2000 to 2020 doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.…

Go et al., Frontiers in Remote Sensing: MAIAC-Based Climatology of Atmospheric Iron-Oxide Dust Species from DSCOVR EPIC Observations doi.org/10.3389/frsen.…

A rare dual-tone dust plume over #Libya: strong winds lifted soils from two distinct regions—darker, moisture-rich brown soils and lighter sandy terrain—merging them into a striking column of #dust extending over the Mediterranean Sea.🌊⚪️🟤 #NASA #NASAWorldview #DustStorm

Song et al., Environ. Earth Sci.: Source-oriented health risks of toxic metals in fugitive dust for children and adults in a mining-industrial region of central China. doi.org/10.1007/s12665…

Liu et al., Atmospheric Pollution Research: Quantifying Dust Contribution to Particulate Matter in Central Asia: Insights from the Elemental Composition of PM2.5 and PM10 in Uzbekistan doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.…

Liu and Chen, Remote Sensing: Integrating Sentinel-1/2 Imagery and Climate Reanalysis for Monthly Bare Soil Mapping and Wind Erosion Modeling in Shandong Province, China doi.org/10.3390/rs1719…

Vignal et al., Journal of Ecology: Surviving the winds through pattern formation: Mathematical modelling of heather stripes in Scotland doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Yadav et al., ATMENV: Characterizing the Saharan dust transported to the UK through lidar ratio, particle depolarization, and spectroscopic measurements doi.org/10.1016/j.atmo…

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Zheng et al., Earth Systems & Environment: Sand and Dust Storms Drivers: A 22 Years Global Bibliometric Evolution. doi.org/10.1007/s41748…

Kaur et al., Atmospheric Pollution Research: Long-term PM2.5 source apportionment at 12 sites in the western United States from 2000 to 2020 doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.…

González-Pérez et al., Medical Sciences: "Influence of Saharan Dust Intrusions on Respiratory Medication Dispensing" doi.org/10.3390/medsci…

Galchenko et al., Journal of Mining Science: Assessment Algorithm for Plant Communities of Natural Biota in Areas of Mine Dust Deposition. doi.org/10.1134/S10627…

Gubanova et al., Atmospheric & Oceanic Optics: Micromineral Composition and Morphology of Near-surface Dust Aerosol in a Megapolis in Winter doi.org/10.1134/S10248…

Dataset: Annual PM2.5 Concentrations for Countries and Urban Areas, 1998-2016 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RH…

Unfortunately, almost all low-cost air sensors don't work for dust. But they surely have their place. nytimes.com/2025/10/18/hea…

Stout et al., ES&T Letters: Temporal surveillance of Coccidioides in Aerosols in Mesa, Arizona doi.org/10.1021/acs.es…