News Headline
The ‘doomsday’ vault that protects the world’s biodiversity is expanding
Source
Fast Company
Publication Date
2019-11-15
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a haunting symbol in a warming world. It’s a concrete bank planted deep in the permafrost of Svalbard—a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean—where it protects 986,243 seed species at a permanent zero degrees Fahrenheit. So even if we destroy ourselves and our ecosystem, the legacy of our planet’s rich plant life can one day live on.