GENEVA, Switzerland — The amount of dust in the air eased slightly in 2023, the United Nations said Friday, warning that poor environmental management was fuelling sand and dust storms.
The UN's weather and climate agency called for greater vigilance in the face of climate change, as drier surface soil leads to more dust being carried in the wind.'Every year, around 2,000 million tons of dust enters the atmosphere, darkening skies and harming air quality in regions that can be thousands of kilometers away, and affecting economies, ecosystems, weather and climate,' the World Meteorological Organization said in a statement.
'Across the whole year, the highest mean surface dust concentration was located in Chad, estimated at 800 to 1,100 microgrammes per cubic meter.Human impact Dust can be transported vast distances by the wind. Though mainly a natural phenomenon, human activity is also driving dust storms.'We need to be vigilant in the face of continuing environmental degradation and current and future climate change,' WMO chief Celeste Saulo warned in the statement.
Says Dust Levels In Air Dropped Slightly In 2023
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