The Sahara Feeds the Amazon?! 🌍

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]The Amazon gets fertilizer from a desert.

[00:00:02]>> [music] >> NASA tracked Saharan dust blown from the Bodélé depression in Chad, an ancient lake bed rich in phosphorus.

[00:00:09]The plume crosses about 1,600 mi of Atlantic. Each [music] year, roughly 27 million tons of dust fall over the Amazon basin.

[00:00:18]>> [music] >> Inside it, about 22,000 tons of phosphorus, almost replacing what heavy rain washes away. The rainforest is partly fed [music] by a place that looks lifeless.