Saving Seeds: Svalbard
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
Length: 00:01:30
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I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does. About 200 miles from the North Pole, the United States is building an arctic seed vault. When completed, the Svalbard Seed Vault will hold backup seeds, copies you could say, from almost every one of the world's 1.5 million crop strains...
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I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does. About 200 miles from the North Pole, the United States is building an arctic seed vault. When completed, the Svalbard Seed Vault will hold backup seeds, copies you could say, from almost every one of the world's 1.5 million crop strains...
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