A seed storage vault built into the side of an Arctic mountain to protect global food
supplies in case of global cataclysm is being tapped by researchers in
the Middle East who say the Syrian war has devastated their crops.
Now, the devastation brought on by the war in Syria ,
which has raged on for four years and claimed the lives of hundreds
of thousands of people, has prompted researchers to request some of the
samples they gave to the vault, as their collection of crops in Aleppo
was destroyed in the fighting.
Among the seed samples requested are crops resistant to drought that could
help scientists develop and secure food supplies in the face of climate
change in dry areas worldwide.
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