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Increased deaths and illnesses from inhaling airborne dust: An understudied impact of climate change

  • Written by Ploy Pattanun Achakulwisut, Postdoctoral Scientist, George Washington University
Increased deaths and illnesses from inhaling airborne dust: An understudied impact of climate changeA large dust storm, or haboob, sweeps across downtown Phoenix on July 21, 2012.AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File

The Dust Bowl in the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century. Intense dust storms relentlessly pounded the southern Great Plains of the United States, wreaking severe ecological damage, forcing 2.5 million...

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