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Published online 17 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040216-6

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Are greenhouse gases drying Africa's dust bowl?

US citizens choking on African dust may have themselves to blame.

In Miami, traffic fumes aren't the only thing choking the air. Several times each summer, health standards are breached because of dust blowing across the ocean from Africa.

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