World’s oldest inhabited termite mounds found in South Africa

The world’s oldest inhabited termite mounds, discovered in Namaqualand, South Africa, are providing insight into the role of these tiny engineers in natural carbon sequestration. A study on the 34,000 year-old mounds, published in Science of Total Environment, was led by scientists from the Department of Soil Science and the Department of Earth Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU)…...