Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong

Mongabay
Dec 8, 2020, 7:00 am201 pts
By the time the war broke out in Syria, researchers from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) had already duplicated and safely transported most of their genetic treasure trove to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, Norway. The…

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