Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars.

Riches from outer space are pulling meteorite hunters into Morocco’s Sahara Desert, where a fast-growing trade in space rocks is changing remote communities and sparking intense races each time a ...

In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn ...

Laxe's Cannes winner, Sirāt is a thrillingly hypnotic survey of the spiritual anguish suffered by ravers in the Moroccan ...

Oliver Laxe, the spiritually minded, 6-foot-6-inch French-born Galician director, knows that his new film, “Sirat,” has given him a rep ...

Mauritania’s mining sector has become a cornerstone of national growth, accounting for nearly a fifth of the country’s GDP and close to 25% of state revenues. Iron ore, gold, copper, and uranium ...

Fatima gripped her newborn tightly against her chest as the Tuareg woman queued beneath the scorching Mauritanian afternoon ...

Autumn has transformed the desert poplar forests of Shaya county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, into a golden spectacle. The county is home to one of the world's largest and best-preserved desert ...

Abstract: This letter proposes a hidden Markov model–Gaussian mixture Model-based tandem approach for efficient classification of human and animal footfall signals acquired from seismic sensors buried ...