News Headline
Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2020-12-09
By the time the war broke out in Syria, researchers from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) had already duplicated and safely transported most of their genetic treasure trove to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, Norway.