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