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Two years after receiving its first deposits, the seed vault on Svalbard has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators announced Thursday.

Cary Fowler – who heads the trust that oversees the seed collection, which is 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the North Pole, said the facility now houses at least one-third of the world’s crop seeds.

Read more: Architectural Marvel, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, hits 500,000 seeds

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race take care of their dogs first when they stop to rest, massaging sore paws and serving up stews of hearty grub for their teams.

Then it’s their turn – and there’s no skimping on the people chow found along the lonely stretches of the 1,770-kilometre race or at the checkpoints. Chicken tetrazzini and Thai noodles. Caribou stroganoff, linguini, turkey dinners with stuffing and moose breakfast burritos. Calorie-laden food for calorie-torching work.

Read more: Competitors in 1,770-km sled dog race fuel up on fancy meals, junk food

DOHA — Atlantic bluefin tuna is in crisis and clearly meets the criteria for a total ban on international trade, the head of the UN wildlife trade organisation said on Saturday.

“The secretariat believes the species (Thunnus thynnus) meets the criteria for Appendix I” of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), said Secretary General Willem Wijnsteker in opening the convention’s triennial meeting in Qatar.

He said this conclusion “has been confirmed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the scientific committee of the ICCAT,” the inter-governmental fishery group that manages tuna stocks in the Atlantic and adjacent seas.

Read more: Bluefin ‘meets criteria’ for trade ban: CITES