Weather & Science

Bigger Dust Storms Are Happening More Frequently

The incidents are endangering public health and economic activity across the globe.

Buildings shrouded in sand and dust during a storm in Cairo, Egypt, on March 6.

Photographer: Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images

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I am not ashamed to admit that, up until 2011, my idea of sand storms was rather idealized and based almost exclusively on watching time and time again how Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas fell in love inside a rusty jeep battered by desert winds in The English Patient.