• TeoTwawki@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    the sahara turning fully green coululd actually be another lind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.

    https://www.popsci.com/environment/sahara-dust-atlantic/

    migrating dust clouds originating in the Sahara Desert are crucial to fostering life in the Atlantic Ocean as far away as the Amazonian basin