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Commentary: Work together, save the planet

By Lawrence Krauss

12 March 2008

Âé¶¹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

IT SOUNDS like something out of a movie: in the furthest reaches of the Arctic – about 1000 kilometres from the North Pole – is . Inside, with a combination that no single person knows in its entirety, is that may one day save the world, or a large part of it.

Late last month the Svalbard opened in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The facility is nothing less than a Noah’s ark of plants for the 21st century, aiming to preserve the world’s crop…

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