La Bóveda Global de Semillas, el semillero noruego que salvará la Humanidad
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Australian seed vault breeds hope for preserving biodiversity
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2021-05-21 02:05:22 GMT2021-05-21 10:05:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SYDNEY, May 21 (Xinhua) About 60 kilometres southwest from Sydney s central business district, locates the Australian PlantBank with a huge seed and tissue culture collections.
Facing the International Day for Biological Diversity, researchers of the seed vault hope their work would bring more hope for conservation of biodiversity. Here at the PlantBank, our focus is wild native seeds from across Australia, particularly species in New South Wales (NSW). Our main focus at the moment is the threatened species. Here is the main repository for NSW threatened species seed, said Dr. Peter Cuneo, manager of the Seedbank and Restoration Research of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust.
A surprisingly small population could save our species.
A person walking in the Mojave Desert during the post-apocalyptic Wasteland Weekend festival on Sept. 28, 2019.
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From all-out nuclear war to a giant
asteroid strike, it s not hard to imagine
ways human life on Earth could abruptly end. But assuming there are some survivors, how many people would it take to keep our species going?
The short answer is, it depends. Different catastrophes would create different doomsday conditions for surviving human populations to endure. For example, a nuclear war could trigger
a nuclear winter, with survivors facing freezing summer temperatures and global famine, not to mention radiation exposure. However, putting some of these conditions aside and focusing on population size, the minimum number is likely very small compared with the approximately