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Aplan to protect food crops of the future

17 years ago

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Arctic vault is designed to save world's seeds

By Bill Lambrecht

POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF

06/18/2006

WASHINGTON

In a plan to protect food crops of the future, polar bears will help guard a "doomsday vault" in the land of the midnight sun.

Scientists and Nordic political leaders planned to gather today at a remote setting near the North Pole to lay the cornerstone for what will be known as the Svalbard Arctic Seed Depository, which they hope can provide the world with a fail-safe method to protect seeds from disaster..........

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17 years ago
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