Svalbard Seed Vault, Humanitys Backup in Case of Catastrophe
Beneath Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago, over a thousand kilometers from the North Pole, lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a secure underground facility designed to protect the future of world agriculture. Since opening in 2008, it has stored backup seed samples from nearly every nation, safeguarding Earth’s crop diversity. Built to withstand war, natural disasters, climate…