The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank
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The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank
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#2We might need to preserve seeds again due to climate change. Impressive to read about those who literally sacrificed their life during a siege for science and the future of humanity. Thanks for sharing.
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#3Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson also did an episode on this:
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#4Elise Blackwell wrote "Hunger", a novel about these botanists, which I thought was well done.
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#5We might need to preserve seeds again due to climate change. Impressive to read about those who literally sacrificed their life during a siege for science and the future of humanity. Thanks for sharing.
There are multiple national and international initiatives that have been building seed banks for a long time, what do you mean with the again?
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#6Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson also did an episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaqVg6BXXtA
> The uploader has not made this video available in your country
We really need a civilization changing event to rethink some stuff.
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#7We might need to preserve seeds again due to climate change. Impressive to read about those who literally sacrificed their life during a siege for science and the future of humanity. Thanks for sharing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
After nuclear war I'm going to head there.
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#8Re: The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank
#9We might need to preserve seeds again due to climate change. Impressive to read about those who literally sacrificed their life during a siege for science and the future of humanity. Thanks for sharing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault After nuclear war I'm going to head there.
I love the fact that [0] is one of the videos you see when you look it up on Google Maps.
Re: The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank
#10We might need to preserve seeds again due to climate change. Impressive to read about those who literally sacrificed their life during a siege for science and the future of humanity. Thanks for sharing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault After nuclear war I'm going to head there.
Virtual tour of the vault: https://virtualtourcompany.co.uk/GlobalSeedVault/index.html