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The “Death Zone” – Decoding the Secrets of the Namib Desert’s Fairy Circles

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Namibia's legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert. Researchers from the University of G�ttingen in Germany and Ben Gurion University in Israel investigated how freshly germinated grass dies inside the fairy circle. Their results show that the grass withers due to a lack of water inside the Fairy Circle.

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The “Death Zone” – Decoding the Secrets of the Namib Desert’s Fairy Circles

Researchers describe topsoil as "death zone" for fresh grass in the fairy circle. Namibia's legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert. Their formation has been researched for decades and has recently been the subject of much

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