River of Dust: The Life-Giving Link Between North Africa and the Amazon

A River of Dust— a celebration of global interconnectedness with an environmental lens, at a time when we need it most.I am dust,the dust of North Africa.I connect continents.

The dust of the Sahel— a ribbon of land between the Sahara and the savannah— lifts with the harmattan wind each winter season.

But this is not just any dust.

The Sahel' s dust will mix with dust from the Sahara and travel thousands of miles westward, across the African continent and the Atlantic Ocean, to reunite with its unforgotten home deep in the Amazon basin.