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Climate change adds urgency to push to save world seeds

2016-04-22 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: During the 872-day German siege of Leningrad in World War II, in which an estimated 1.1 million civilians died, a small band of workers devoted themselves to safeguarding a priceless trove of 200,000 seeds at the Institute of Plant Industry. Then the worlds largest seed bank, the collection had been amassed, in large part, by famed Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov during expeditions to 64 countries. As the siege wore on and starvation became epidemic, workers at the institute refused to eat the...

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