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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

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World’s oldest termite mounds discovered in South Africa – and they’ve been storing precious carbon for thousands of years

Purple spring flowers growing on termite mounds in Namaqualand. A Potts, Author provided     By Michele Francis, Stellenbosch University     The landscape along the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand region is dotted with thousands of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the surface area. These heuweltjies, as the locals call them (the word means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground network of […]

todayJune 17, 2024 49

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The Sahara Desert used to be a green savannah – new research explains why

  By Edward Armstrong, University of Helsinki Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world’s largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited there, some as much as 11,000 years old according to scientific dating techniques, representing a unique ethnological and climatological record of the region. Curiously, however, these images do not depict the arid, barren landscape that […]

todayDecember 20, 2023 41

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