The orange color is more like "Alien Planet" I think Alain

I did not realize our dust storm made the news in France.
Gosh it must have covered a huge area of Australia as we are in northern NSW while this photo you show is in Sydney (southern NSW) and I see it was north of us too in Queensland.
Here are some photos taken by Ep yesterday here on the farm that shows the eerie dust coloured sky and the background trees blocked from view.

The picture above also shows my Brussels sprouts in the garden and how they have suffered neglect due to me rewriting seamless's frigging file system for the last 7 weeks lol.

The dust smells like an old dirty vacuum cleaner.
Yes its actually very serious as much of this dust you see in the sky is farmland being blown away.
It's not dust from our area as it is mostly grazing land here, the dust from dust storms typically comes from inland farms where a good amount of the worlds wheat is grown.
By the land being left plowed and allowed to dry out in the sun there is nothing to protect the earth from the wind. This practice can not continue if farming is to be sustained.
Fukuoka's natural farming practices demonstrated cereal crops can be grown without plowing the land and he did this decades ago without using herbicides:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2aKo6la7J4&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptIttqU1H8Y&feature=related