A photographer from National Geographic shows what it’s like to be in a world-class dust storm in Mali.
Experiencing a dust storm
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:December 30, 2010
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Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
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Korea experiences the effects of an annual dust storm that originates in China. Called "Yellow Dust" in English, it gets pretty thick, even after crossing the West Sea (Yellow Sea).
One year (c. 2003), things pretty much had to shut down for a couple of hours all over the region – it was so dense I could not see 20 feet (six meters) in front of me. (No exaggeration.)
Not the same, but then not dissimilar. The dust supposedly gets worse as China "develops" the forested lands between the Gobi and the coast. And pollution is a big contributor as well. Apparently, this past March was the worst case ever.
And people still doubt anthropogenic effects on the climate.