To the average person, walking into a flour- or sawmill and seeing dust swirling around is unlikely to evoke much of a response, but those in the know are quite likely to bolt for the nearest exit at ...

If you ask people what household cleaning job they hate the most, the details may vary — for some, it’s doing laundry, for others, emptying the dishwasher — but there’s a common thread. There’s always ...

The first large plume of Saharan dust is set to arrive in Florida. These tiny particles travel thousands of miles through the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), which is located between half and 3.5 miles from ...

Fine dust that you can’t see lurks in the air inside any heavily used workshop, and it does serious damage to your lungs over time. Not all dust is equal: Silica, metal, wood, and fibrous dust carry ...

In Owens Valley, where water diversions by Los Angeles have dried up Owens Lake, dust rising from the dry lake bed is a longstanding problem. Now, scientists have found that dust emissions from the ...