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Weather station to boost biodiversity research

Weather station to boost biodiversity research

Weather station to boost biodiversity research Southern Africa’s highest weather station to boost climate, water and ecosystem research. The South African Environmental Observation Network (NRF-SAEON), in collaboration with the University of the Free State’s Afromontane Research Unit (ARU), has installed the highest weather station in Southern Africa in the Mont-aux-Sources area of the Maluti-Drakensberg. Positioned […]

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Tracking millipedes

Walking through indigenous rainforest in Africa always delivers unexpected surprises. In picture is a “shongololo” or millipede found in abundance across southern Africa. There are close to 12,000 millipede species in the world. the name “millipede” is derived from Latin, meaning “thousand feet”. However, no known species has that many legs, and the record for

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