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Photo of a (currently) dry, dusty cave south of the Atlas mountains. In the past, water was flowing down this large stalagmite formation. We date tiny pieces of stalagmite (~0.25g) to establish when ...

Morocco governs most of the Western Sahara – and has done since Spanish powers left in the 1970s – but liberation movement the Polisario Front claims it as an independent state.

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...