Residents of Kandersteg, Switzerland, are living below a mountain slope that has been moving for years, but warming temperatures and thawing permafrost have reportedly raised the stakes. An Associated Press report published by The Weather […]
Today, Tuesday, February 26, 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is scheduled to start operating on the remote island of Spitsbergen, Norway in the Svalbard Archipelago. The location is only about 1000km (625 miles) from the North Pole. The Global Seed Vault will house duplicates of seeds from known species of plants from all over the world in case a natural or other disaster destroys the original species. [Editor] Read on for more details. Photo by Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault [/Editor]
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