Last night's haboob in the Phoenix area rated a rare Category 5 on the new PHX-DUST scale! asu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...
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The Dust-Poster! Professor/Scientist, University of Texas- El Paso. educator, futurist, Predictor, humorist, human rights defender, thoughtprovoker, militant moderate #dust #aerosols #EarthScience #drylands #aeolian #DisabledInSTEM @tomgillpredicts on X
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
Have you finally adjusted to saying and seeing Eswatini instead of Swaziland? Well, now, it'll no longer be Nauru, say hello to Naoero, pronounced "now-arrow." www.syracuse.com/us-news/2026...
World’s third-smallest country changes its name
A statement was posted to the government’s Facebook account said.
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El Paso Airport was evacuated earlier tonight when the smoke alarms went off. Turns out the dust from the haboob powered by 64 mph (~100 km/hr) winds was so thick and infiltrated the building so much, it set off the alarms.
What Drives Derechos? The First Derecho Archive Could Help Meteorologists Figure It Out. eos.org/articles/wha...
What Drives Derechos? The First Derecho Archive Could Help Meteorologists Figure It Out. - Eos
Researchers can now use 70 years of data to examine the conditions that create these destructive windstorms.
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Wow! What an amazing story. I had never heard of this man until now! www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
How an enslaved, shipwrecked African became the US's first great explorer
Nearly 500 years ago, a Moroccan man travelled thousands of miles from Florida to the Pacific Coast, becoming the first known outsider to see the American West.
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A hot take from me. Weather apps are a bane to society. They're generally inaccurate, and people don't understand how they work anyway. And this article points out how they are hurting the economy. www.businessinsider.com/weather-apps...
One tiny rain icon is changing how Americans spend their summers — and crushing small businesses
Weather apps are showing rainy forecasts even on sunny days, causing Americans to scrap their summer plans and hurting a lot of small businesses.
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Nine years ago today I dreamed that extra chewy potato chips became the snack sensation. Potato chips with the texture of jerky!
Overheard twelve years ago today: "The band Rush- were they ever into Satan?" "No, man. They're Canadian. They're into bacon."
The "flash-cooked" scenario is favored in new study. www.popsci.com/science/how-...
Dinosaurs died out within hours, new study suggests
The Chicxulub asteroid impact may have set our whole planet on fire.
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Yesterday's tornado in Wisconsin also triggered a tsunami- a meteotsunami. earthsky.org/earth/what-i...
Meteotsunami hits Lake Winnebago after Wisconsin tornado
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Now that's nasty. Temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit, with a dust storm. And I bet their dewpoint is not low. At least the dust-bearing winds come in from the desert, so should drop the humidity. timeskuwait.com/dust-storms-...
Dust storms sweep Kuwait with temperatures hovering at 48°C - Times Kuwait
Kuwait is experiencing very hot and dusty weather as strong northwesterly winds continue to affect the country, reducing horizontal visibility in several areas, particularly in open and desert regions...
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Why Healthy Soils Matter More Than Ever eos.org/editors-vox/...
Why Healthy Soils Matter More Than Ever - Eos
Soil degradation threatens food security, water resources, biodiversity, and climate resilience. A new article explores its causes, impacts, monitoring methods, and restoration solutions.
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Should chainsaws be prohibited in Wilderness Areas? www.hcn.org/articles/a-b...
A ban on chainsaws in wilderness is performative, not practical - High Country News
An experienced trail crew leader argues that, in today’s forests, the rigidity of the regulation buries what it’s designed to protect.
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Reflood the Aral Sea as a climate hack? phys.org/news/2026-07...
Reflooding the Aral Sea could prevent massive CO₂ emissions
About 90% of the Aral Sea has dried up. The exposed sediments have already released enormous amounts of carbon dioxide (748 megatons) since 1960. However, through restoration, the lake could once agai...
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On the hottest day of the year, now El Paso is getting a late-night haboob... Blowing dust reported for the last hour and a half. Please bring on the wet monsoon. #txwx
Congratulations to Alexia Reyes for defending her Master's thesis this afternoon, "Assessing the Health Impacts of PM2.5 and Ozone Exposure: A Study of Hospitalizations in El Paso."
While parts of Europe brace for another heat wave, unusual July snow falls on Mt. Olympus in Greece greekreporter.com/2026/07/25/s...
Summer Snow Falls in Greece as Heavy Rain Damages Athens - GreekReporter.com
Summer snow fell in Greece as heavy rain flooded Athens, damaged property, disrupted transport and prompted 940 emergency calls.
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Are we listening for alien intelligence the wrong way earthsky.org/space/listen...
Are we listening for alien intelligence the wrong way?
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Whoa! The classic pop tune "Sunny" is totally aeolian! It even lithifies! Check out these lyrics: "My life was torn like windblown sand, then a rock was formed when we held hands..." It's been performed by dozens of singers, but of course the best must be by DUSTY Springfield. youtu.be/ehy6VjLU8DY
Dusty Springfield - Sunny
YouTube video by gferdinandus
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Interesting research showing how lunettes (one of my favorite landforms) provide hydrological resistence. Go Team Lunettes! Gil et al., Hydrological Processes: Storage-Release Mechanism in Lunette Systems Enhance Shallow Lake Resilience Under Multiyear Drought doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
Storage‐Release Mechanism in Lunette Systems Enhance Shallow Lake Resilience Under Multiyear Drought
Inherited aeolian landforms (lunettes) from arid paleoclimatic periods actively regulate shallow lake persistence through quantifiable storage-release mechanisms. High-resolution monitoring revealed ...
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In the 1930s, America planted 220 million trees across Dust Bowl farmland; decades later, thousands of km of shelterbelts still protected farms and wildlife
In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl hit America’s Great Plains and was caused by more than drought alone. Years of intensive ploughing, drought and strong winds blew away fertile topsoil and damaged farms acr...
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Let's get rid of this largely confusing, misleading and meaningless "air quality index (AQI)" and replace it with actual numbers of actual pollutants. This essay argues why in a way that exactly expresses my feelings. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Smoky Skies Are Coming Back
We should really have a better way of knowing when it’s safe to go outside.
theatlantic.com