How Tiny Termites Hold Back Deserts
Thursday, February 5, 2015 - 16:10
in Earth & Climate
If you own a home, termites are the enemy, but if you want to hold back a desert, their large dirt mounds can be crucial to protecting semi-arid ecosystems and agricultural lands. That's obviously important for feeding people and insert obligatory global warming reference here, because it means those areas could be a lot more resilient to changing climates than climate scientists believe. read more