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We Thought This Polar Reserve Dug to Never Serve: What Caused the First Seed Withdrawal Was neither a Famine nor a Natural Disaster

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Built in 2008 under a mountain in Svalbard to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity, the Polar Seed Reserve experienced its first withdrawal in 2015 – not in the face of a famine or natural disaster, but because of the war in Syria. A paradox that reveals the real importance of this underground fortress. More
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Built in 2008 under a mountain in Svalbard to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity, the Polar Seed Reserve experienced its first withdrawal in 2015 – not in the face of a famine or natural disaster, but because of the war in Syria. A paradox that reveals the real importance of this underground fortress. More

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SciencePost broke the news on Monday, September 21, 2026.
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