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A Modest Proposal
Luigi Guarino
The financial woes of Ireland are regularly in the news these days, though a respectful respite seems thankfully to have been observed recently, perhaps in honour of St Patrick’s Day. But the country has gone through...
21 Mar 2012
21 Mar 2012
Helping Genebanks and Their Users Get Along
Luigi Guarino
Genebanks: what are they good for? While the answer is rarely the emphatic “Absolutely nothing!” of the anti-war song, ambivalence – or worse – about the usefulness of genebanks is expressed more often than one...
20 Mar 2012
20 Mar 2012
O Globo TV Reports on Seed Vault
O Globo TV in Jornal Nacional reports on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Se depender da ciência, os alimentos de origem vegetal nunca vão desaparecer. Uma espécie de arca com sementes de todo o planeta foi construída debaixo das...
17 Mar 2012
17 Mar 2012
The Economist: Banking Against Doomsday
The Economist reports on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in its print edition in March 2012.
With a heavy clunk, the steel outer doors of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault closed on February 28th, shutting out a howling Arctic gale...
10 Mar 2012
10 Mar 2012
National Geographic: Banking Seeds for Doomsday
National Geographic writer David Braun discusses a recent deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
In these times of tumultuous weather patterns and no certainty about the future stability of Earth’s climate as civilization has...
5 Mar 2012
5 Mar 2012
NBC's Today Show on the Seed Vault
NBC's Today Show reported on the opening of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in March 2012.
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2 Mar 2012
2 Mar 2012
NPR: The Ultimate In Heirloom Wheat Arrives At Seed Vault
NPR reports on the deposit of heirloom wheat to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
A few days ago, amid darkness and freezing winds, thousands of small packages of seeds were carried into an underground storage vault on a remote...
2 Mar 2012
2 Mar 2012