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Nature 445, 693 (15 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445693a
Norway unveils design of 'doomsday' seed bank
Michael Hopkin
The Arctic outcrop of Svalbard, just a few hundred miles from the North Pole, might seem like an odd place to install a freezer. But buried deep in the interior of an Arctic mountain, a US$5-million cold storage unit will house duplicate seeds for almost all of the world's estimated 1.
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