Fuad Gaši, coordinator of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: ‘We have more than 1.4 million samples and the door is only opened three times a year’
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This is what peak evolution looks like
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How easy is it for Norway's international seed bank to navigate politics and secure our future food supply?
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Botanists identify thirty-three global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants
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Deep in the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is protecting Africa's food supply
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Buried deep in the permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is opening its doors to the world with the launch of a new virtual tour to mark its fifteenth anniversary
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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The boring billion - The world before plate tectonics
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
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The Australian government has formally recognised the extinction of a tiny island rodent, the Bramble Cay melomys - the first known demise of a mammal because of human-induced climate change.
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species The news report from...
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction
The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species
The news report from 2016: First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change
The scientific report from 2016: Confirmation of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola on Bramble Cay, Torres Strait (PDF)
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