Dust clouds can cool the Earth and halt hurricanes. But the world's biggest dust source was until recently a war zone. Jim Giles joins one of the few research teams to make the trip.
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Jim Giles is a reporter for Nature, based in London.
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Giles, J. The dustiest place on Earth. Nature 434, 816–819 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/434816a
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