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Radio 4,2 mins

Storing the World’s Seeds in a Frozen Mountainside

BBC Inside Science

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Brian Lainoff from The Crop Trust gives Marnie Chesterton a guided tour through the Seed Vault, dug out of a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle Photo: Going in to the seed vault. Credit: Marnie Chesterotn

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