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📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons ⚖ 472 KB

In the satellite image: the imposing Manicouagan crater in Canada with a diameter of approximately 100 kilometres. This as well as other craters still puzzle geologists and chemists.

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📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons ⚖ 475 KB

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Africa's highest mountain provides a habitat for fascinating plant communities. The montane forest belt, with over 1,200 plant species, including more than 100 ferns, has the greatest biodiversity on the mountain. However, more and more of the forest is disappearing due to forest clearing and fires,

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The cathedral-like mound, almost five metres in height, of a colony of termites in West Africa that grows fungi. Research has revealed how community life amongst termites follows certain rules.

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📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons ⚖ 66 KB

## Mirror of Climate Change The large lakes in the Sahara still hold many secrets. With the help of the lake sediments, geologists are gaining new insights into the variable history of climate and environment in arid Africa.