and what should people do if they find themselves caught in a dust storm stay home and if you're driving the best thing is to move down from the road where it's safe turn off the light until visibility will get back to something you could see and then drive people lose their life every year because of car accident during dust storms there's a lot of health complication with dust particles and that's another thing that i'm i'm working on trying to understand what happened when we breathe these particles we expose human lung cells to these particles to see what would be the interaction and when asthma attack would could happen this is important work because dust storms cause severe damage to lung tissue leading to increased asthma attacks and lung disease but not everything about dust storms is bad those dust particles are critically important to ecosystems around the world every year dust from the sahara desert in africa gets blown across the atlantic ocean to land in the amazon rainforests of south america providing critical nutrients including phosphorus that fertilize soil these particles can cross across the the world move as you mentioned earlier from sahara all the way to atlanta and also last year made it all the way to west texas where i live in the bigger picture dust storms are yet another reason for us to come together to fight climate change scientists are warning with increasing urgency that as temperatures continue to rise so does our chances of seeing a resurgence of catastrophic drought and dust storms similar to the NUMBER_TOKENs if and when that happens we'll have no choice but to deal with the disastrous consequences to our environment agriculture and human health model predicting that as climate change progressive it's getting hotter we're gonna see more and more of these dust storm whether they're gonna be more severe or more frequent we don't know yet but we we are aware the to the fact that we're gonna have more and more of these in case it's not clear by now we need to take dust storms seriously if alerts are issued for your area make sure to listen and get off the road and indoors have you ever been in a haboob or dust storm yourself if so leave a comment down below and let us know what it was like and if you learned something important today make sure to like and subscribe until next time
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