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Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vaults

by Alister Doyle

The Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen. Photo: Bob Srong/Planet Ark

Syria’s civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a “doomsday” vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said on Monday.

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