Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles

What connects American dust storms, Greenland ice, and the traces of Chernobyl? Dust!

This audiobook explains how an invisible veil of dust crosses continents, changes climate, people’s fates, and even the course of history.

An amazing and deep investigation—now in audiobook format!

"A vast and insightful picture of how the tiniest particles influence everything around us, our health, and our relationships with the outside world."

Nature

Dust travels across continents, sketching the story of our world and its transformations. From America’s Dust Bowl of the 1930s to Greenland’s icy ice sheets today; through the dusty seabed of the now-dried Aral Sea in Uzbekistan; and through nuclear fallout from Chernobyl—this book explores what dust is and what impact it has on our lives.

The modern world, in the end, is held together and permeated by dust. On the pages of this book you’ll meet people who have to live amid sandstorms, activists who challenged dust and try to defeat it, and those whom it has driven out of their usual habitats.