The Invisible Dust That Feeds the Planet 🌱🌀

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]The reason we are alive is because of a piece of dust in Africa. This is a true story no one knows. Every year dust flies [music] from the Sahara desert all the way across the ocean to the Amazon rainforest. [music] This dust is 27 million tons and it's full of phosphorus. [music] This phosphorus is the perfect food for Amazon trees. It lands on the Amazon trees and keeps them alive. [music] And when the Amazon is alive, it produces oxygen. 20% of the world's oxygen comes from the Amazon and that oxygen keeps us alive.

[00:00:49]>> [music] >> So, yes, our breath is linked to a journey of dust from a dead lake in Africa to a forest in South America to the lungs [music] in our body. We owe so much to this piece of dust [music] in Africa.