Doomsday Vault
About 2 years back, 1000 kilometers from the North Pole, the ‘future of life’ was planned on remote Arctic island – the seed bank or call it the ‘doomsday vault’. Yes, it is where, around 2 million seeds representing all.
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This Norwegian government’s initiative hopes to preserve seeds from all known varieties of food crops. In the face of global warming, climate change, future...
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