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Desert dust storms carry human-made toxic pollutants, and the health risk extends indoors

  • Written by Claire Williams Bridgwater, Research Professor in Environmental Science, American University
Desert dust storms carry human-made toxic pollutants, and the health risk extends indoorsA massive dust storm billows across the western desert of Iraq on April 26, 2005.Shannon Arledge/USMC via Getty Images

Humans have contended with dust storms for thousands of years, ever since early civilizations appeared in the Middle East and North Africa. But modern desert dust storms are different from their preindustrial counterparts.

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