Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault at twilight, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Fisheye view of Svalbard Global Seed Vault in snow, with facade with artwork by Norwegian artist Dyveke Sanne, Svalbard, Norway, October.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault at twilight, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Entrance to main storage room of Svalbard Global Seed Vault where approximately 800,000 seeds are stored at -18 C, Svalbard, Norway, July 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Entrance to main storage room of Svalbard Global Seed Vault where approximately 800,000 seeds are stored at -18 C, Svalbard, Norway, July 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Ola Westengen, manager overseeing the arrival of Seed the Svalbard Global Seed Bank, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in landscape
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Pal Hermansen / Man at Svalbard Global Seed Bank sorting and cataloguing new seeds arrived, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Ferry on Isfjorden with Svalbard Global Seed Vault visible in the corner of the landscape, Svalbard, Norway, July 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Man cataloguing newly arrived seed samples, Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Transport of newly arrived seed samples being transported into vault, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway. October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault at twilight, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Crates of seeds stored at -18 C in the main Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, July 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / New seed samples arriving at Svalbard Airport for Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Crates of seeds stored at -18 C in the main Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, July 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / New seed samples at Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Man checking newly arrived seed samples at Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Newly arrived seed samples at airport, before security control, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne., on the roof of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard...
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Pal Hermansen / Computer system for cataloguing new seed samples, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Moon and glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne, on the roof of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012
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Pal Hermansen / Ola Westengen director of the vault placing new seeds in the vault, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Ola Westengen, director of the vault moving new seeds into Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Signed statement from the UN secretary general, after their visited to the Svalbard Seed Vault in 2009.
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Pal Hermansen / Sign for Svalbard Global Seed Vault, October, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Delivery of new seed samples at Salbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012,
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault at twilight, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Main storage room of Svalbard Global Seed Vault where approximately 800,000 seeds are stored at -18 C, Svalbard, Norway, July 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault at twilight, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Man transporting newly arrived seeds to the inner part of the vault, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / One of two spare storage rooms, to be converted with freezing equipment and filled when the main room is full of seeds, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, July, Svalbard, Norway. July 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault in mist, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault with crescent moon, Svalbard, Norway, October 2010.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Seed Vault workers putting new packages of seed into storage in the -18 deg storage room. Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Newly arrived seed samples at airport, before delivery to Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Sample of package with wheat seeds as stored in the vault. Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway.
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Pal Hermansen / Svalbard Global Seed Vault, with glittering facade designed by artist Dyveke Sanne., on the roof of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Light reflected in steel, mirrors, and prisms in landscape, Svalbard...
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Pal Hermansen / Men moving newly arrived seed samples, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, October.
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Pal Hermansen / Seeds from North Korea and Taiwan in side the main vault of Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway, July 2012.
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Pal Hermansen / Floorplan of Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway.
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Rod Williams / Female Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) on grass seed head, Hutchinson's Bank, New Addington, UK, August.
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Nick Upton / Low angle view of White dead nettles (Lamium album) growing on a roadside bank, Wiltshire, UK, April.
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Nick Upton / Low angle view of White dead nettles (Lamium album) growing on a roadside bank, Wiltshire, UK, April.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Various seeds in storage containers waiting to go into seed bank. Wakehurst Place, Sussex, England, 2000.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Seeds and pods of Makalani / Real fan palm (Hyphaene petersiana), Pedaliacae, Devil's claw (Harpagophytum procumbens), Bleedwood tree (Pterocarpus angolensis), Ammi visnaga (Apium genus), Combretum sp...
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Seed bank officer holding jar of frozen seeds in freezer at Wakehurst Place Seed Bank, West Sussex, England, 2000.
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Dave Bevan / Bank vole {Clethrionomys glareolus} feeding on bird seed in snow, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
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Dave Bevan / Bank vole {Clethrionomys glareolus} feeding on bird seed in snow, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
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Shane Gross / Grey snapper fish (Lutjanus griseus) hunting among Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) roots, Eleuthera, Bahamas. August.
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Shane Gross / Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) habitat with shoal of Silversides (Atherinomorus lacunosus), Eleuthera, Bahamas. August.
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Linda Pitkin / Butterbur (Petasites hybridus), female flowers, England: Surrey, on bank of River Wandle, Croydon, near boundary with Beddington, March
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Linda Pitkin / Butterbur (Petasites hybridus), female flower, England: Surrey, on bank of River Wandle, Croydon, near boundary with Beddington, March
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Mike Read / Indian paintbrush (Castilleja linariaefolia) flowering on roadside bank near Signal Mountain, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, June.
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Mike Read / Bracted lousewort (Pedicularis bracteosa) on a roadside bank near Signal Mountain, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, June.
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Mike Read / Yellow bell (Fritillaria pudica) growing on a roadside bank beside the Bear Tooth All American Highway, Wyoming, USA, June.
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Steve Nicholls / Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera) a widespread orchid of grasslands and verges, growing on St George's Flower Bank, Bristol, UK, June.
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Nigel Cattlin / A brightly coloured mullein moth (Cucullia verbascum) feeding on a figwort (Scrophularia nodosa) on a canal bank, Berkshire, England, UK, June
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Nigel Cattlin / Stump of an unstable, rotten, oak tree (Quercus robur) beside a road and felled for safety reasons, berkshire, April