South Africa: World’s Oldest Termite Mounds Found in South Africa – and They’ve Been Storing Valuable Carbon for 1000’s of Years
[ad_1] The panorama alongside the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand area is dotted with hundreds of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the floor space. These heuweltjies, because the locals name them (the phrase means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground community of tunnels and nests of the…