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<a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/03/18/the-hidden-value-of-herbariums" title="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/03/18/the-hidden-value-of-herbariums">The hidden value of herbariums</a> (webpage to podcast recording)</div>

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By WBUR <i>On Point </i>(Boston's NPR)</div>

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March 18, 2024</div>

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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arnhem, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(52, 60, 64);">Duke University recently announced plans to close and re-home its century-old herbarium.</span></p>

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<span style="font-family: Arnhem, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(52, 60, 64);">But with climate change and a looming biodiversity crisis, scientists say these preserved collections of old plants are more important than ever.</span></p>

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For more on this topic, see:</div>

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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://dukemag.duke.edu/stories/nowhere-grow" title="https://dukemag.duke.edu/stories/nowhere-grow">Nowhere to Grow</a> (</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">web article;

</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dec 2023)</span></div>

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<a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/02/duke-university-herbarium-faculty-decision-close-departmental-competition-biology-resources-allege-phytotron" id="OWA73557c92-3ec7-e941-7d7b-ab41f9d1a60b" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/02/duke-university-herbarium-faculty-decision-close-departmental-competition-biology-resources-allege-phytotron" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Faculty

 allege decision...motivated by departmental competition</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (web article; February 2024)</span></div>

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<a href="https://www.aibs.org/news/2024/240221-duke-herbarium-closure.html" title="https://www.aibs.org/news/2024/240221-duke-herbarium-closure.html">AIBS Calls on Duke University to Reconsider Decision to Close Herbarium</a> (web article; February 2024)</div>

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWil5f3PZUk" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWil5f3PZUk">Calls for Duke University to reconsider herbarium closure</a> (YouTube video; February 2024)</div>

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