climate-change

  • The International Seed Vault in Svalbard 

    A secure storage facility on a Norwegian island houses seeds from around the world to safeguard biodiversity. Puropose It is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault- it exists on Spitsbergen, one of the islands in the Arctic archipelago of Norway- and it serves as a secure backup facility for the crop diversity being saved around the

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  • Extinct Animals:

    Extinct Animals:

    The possibilities of de-extinction and bringing back animals like the woolly mammoth. De-extinction refers to the resurrection of extinct species through highly advanced scientific techniques; this has become a more relevant topic following continued developments in genetic engineering, cloning, and genome editing technologies such as CRISPR. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is perhaps one of

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