Two different parts of the world. Two different landscapes. Two different places. Can they ever be connected? Surprisingly, the answer is, yes! The dry Sahara was the lifeblood for the vibrant and ...

CALIFORNIA - Scientists have uncovered a link between the world's largest desert, the Sahara, and its largest rainforest, the Amazon, US-based science and conservation website Mongabay.com has ...

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The Sahara Desert in North Africa and the Amazon rainforest in South America are separated by a distance of 3,000 miles, including a 1,600-mile expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. At first glance, the two ...

The Amazon River basin contains the world's largest tropical rain forest, with the highest biodiversity of plant species on Earth. The Sahara is the world's largest, hottest desert — a place where ...

Every year, wind and weather systems lift an average of 182 million tons of dust from Africa's Sahara desert and blow it westward. According to a report from NASA about the phenomenon, that's the ...

GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 25 (UPI) --On one side of the Atlantic is one of the driest splotches of land on Earth. On the other side is one of the wettest and most fertile. Despite the miles of open ocean ...

It is one of the most unlikely links on Earth. A new Nasa satellite has revealed the stunning link between the Sahara desert and the Amazon rainforest. For the first time it showed vast dust clouds ...