TTF 2021 – Dusts

Dusts / о Пылях Alisa Verbina (RU) | Selbi Jumayeva (TM) | Dmitrii Aparin (RU) Dirt or displaced matter? A third of the Earth’s terrestrial area will be subject to drier conditions due to hotter temperatures and changing precipitation patterns. The largest areas with high dust intensities are in the Northern Hemisphere, a broad dust belt that extends from the west coast of North Africa, over the Middle East, Central and South Asia, to China. Terrestrially, dust and sandstorm-derived microbiota contain a spectacular diversity of bacteria, viruses, and fungi feeding on - and cohabiting with - each other. Industrial processes drive an increasing amount of circulating dust in the atmosphere, complicating greenhouse gas-driven anthropogenic global warming. The properties and functions of dust are entangled with human activities and effects on Earth, as co-producing and active agents of planetary ecosystems within larger interplanetary dynamics. From 2015 to 2018, Deinococcus radiodurans - a