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The world has a seed "doomsday vault," and it just got a huge deposit

The world has a seed "doomsday vault," and it just got a huge deposit

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Nov 03, 2024
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway just got a HUGE deposit. (Huang Yile)

Hi, guys!

Are you familiar with the “doomsday vault”?

I reported on it for Newsday back in 2008, when it first opened in Norway’s remote arctic region and remember feeling like a science-fiction writer at the time. The very fact that someone, somewhere, thought we’d need such a …

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