News Headline
As Climate Change Threatens Food Supplies, Seed Saving is an Ancient Act of Resilience
Source
Huffington Post
Publication Date
2017-06-23
On Feb. 26, 2008, a $9-million underground seed vault began operating deep in the permafrost on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, just 810 miles from the North Pole. This high-tech Noah’s Ark for the world’s food varieties was intended to assure that, even in a worst-case scenario, our irreplaceable heritage of food seeds would remain safely frozen.