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The recipe for restoring damaged lands is missing one key ingredient: seeds

A new report highlights recovery solutions to fires, droughts and other climate catastrophes.
Rajani Kumar: Why seed conservation and genebanks are crucial for maintaining biodiversity

Rajani Kumar: Why seed conservation and genebanks are crucial for maintaining biodiversity

With climate change threatening crop diversity, genebanks take on the crucial role of being the source of biological genetic diversity.

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Threat of climate change is forcing Norway to drop millions on its doomsday vault
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Threat of climate change is forcing Norway to drop millions on its doomsday vault

To keep the Svalbard Global Seed Vault running, and to protect it from the effects of climate change, the Norwegian government is going to have to spend upwards of $13 million in upgrades.

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