Sahara, desert sand, Morocco. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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Bacteria living in the warm waters off the Bahama Islands may feed on the mineral-rich dust that the wind carries over from the Sahara Desert, a new study finds.
Winds may blow the dust about 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) across the Sahara and the Atlantic Ocean before it settles along the Great Bahama Bank, a raised limestone platform on the ocean floor near the islands, the study reports…
