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Gene Banks to Preserve World’s Crops from Climate Change
Design of the Svalbard seed vault as of early 2007 In 1992, the Global Biodiversity Convention (GBC) was adopted in Rio de Janeiro, and which placed the biodiversity issue center stage–calling for the...
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New Method Finds Best Places to Install Solar by Mapping Solar Radiation
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a method of geographically measuring solar insolation — the amount of solar radiation that hits a certain area at a certain time — that...
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New Video of National Geographic Touring the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is like a modern day Noah’s Ark – storing seeds rather than animals, but incredibly important in case of global catastrophe. Go here to read the rest: New Video of...
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Photo of the Day: Polar Bear Plays King Of The Hill
Friend and conservation photographer Rebecca Jackrel recently went to Svalbard to photograph polar bears. This is one of the images she captured — and quite possibly my favorite photo of a polar bear...
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With American climate policy now highly uncertain, the founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault talks about his efforts to protect our agricultural future. Excerpt from: Saving seeds in the North Pole
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