Today’s slide show is a series on the Doomsday Seed Vault, in Norway, the world’s repository of food crop seeds. It is designed to store two-billion seeds of 4.5 million varieties of plants, and should keep them viable for thousands of years.
Obama asks Betty White for her long-form birth certificate.
Pet parrots that have been released to the wild in Australia are now beginning to teach native birds to talk.
Someone near you is working to conserve the non-crop biota. Contact The Nature Conservancy to help save what can be saved of the living world we inherited and seem bent on destroying.
Posted by: joel hanes | Monday, January 23, 2012 at 03:44 AM