Southern California is especially vulnerable. The Imperial Valley and eastern San Diego County are among the regions most ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A wind storm is slamming Kern County and pushing dust up into the air, leading to car crashes, power outages and heightened fears of valley fever. Winds have been gusting ...

They are haboobs, the huge clouds of dust that develop ahead of a thunderstorm during the Arizona monsoon. A dust storm that swept through Phoenix Aug. 25 towered thousands of feet into the air and ...

Sarah Lynch Baldwin is a deputy managing editor of CBSNews.com. She helps lead national and breaking news coverage and shapes editorial workflows. A massive wall of dust — called a haboob — hit the ...

A new collaborative study between Reichman University and the Technion reveals, for the first time, how living bacteria are able to survive inside dust particles transported through the atmosphere by ...

Yet much of the dust endures, likely cocooned by protective cooler gas pockets, according to the statement. Observing these ...

They can seem to appear from nowhere, swirling and pulsing as they grow to cover the horizon, reducing visibility to zero as they swallow freeways, streets and entire neighborhoods. They are haboobs, ...