In Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is buried deep in permafrost a few kilometers from the Arctic Circle. The vault was created as a means to preserve human agriculture for an uncertain future. We first wrote about the vault back in 2014 (see below) after 20,000 varieties of critical food crops arrived to join a total of 800,000 seed samples from around the world.
The vault was built with the future in mind, but... read more