Global Seed Bank Receives Its One-Millionth Variety

Yale e360
Feb 25, 2020, 1:59 pm187 pts
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic, also known as the “doomsday vault,” has added its one millionth seed variety. Built in Norway in 2008, the vault is meant to protect crop diversity and safeguard global food supplies in case of a catastrophe, from natural disasters and climate change to war.…

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