'Doomsday' seed vault receives 50,000 new samples

Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 16:31 in Earth & Climate

Nearly 10 years after a "doomsday" seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world's largest repository built to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out global food crops.

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