utting out of the permafrost on a Spitsbergen mountain-side in the Svalbard archipelago, the entrance to the world’s “doomsday” seed vault is worthy of a James Bond movie. Surrounded by snow, ice and the occasional polar bear, the facility houses 1.2m seed samples from every corner of the planet as an insurance policy against catastrophe. It is a monument to 12,000 years
‘Doomsday’ seed vault invites the public inside
Mar 17, 2023
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