The vault holding humanity’s precious seeds is on thin ice

Grist
By Zoya TeirsteinMar 27, 2019, 6:41 pm163 pts
The Crop Trust — the organization tasked by the U.N. with preserving the world’s diversity of crops — has a slippery problem on its hands. Its most important effort, a global seed vault, is buried in an abandoned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago, a chain of Norweigan islands several hundred miles…

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