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Could Frozen Seeds Save the Future? Scientists Bring a 32,000-year-old Seed Back to Life
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 15:09
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Far away on the remote island of Spitsbergen in the Artic Svalbard archipelago lies humanity’s fail-safe storage of seeds. With the threat of natural and man-made disasters looming in the future, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located securely halfway between Norway and the North Pole (approx. 810 miles (1,300 km) from the North Pole).
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