Rapid climate change forced urgent upgrade of ‘failsafe’ doomsday storage facilityThe Arctic global seed vault has reached the milestone of having 1m varieties stored in its deep freeze. The new deposits are being made after unexpected flooding of its entrance tunnel in 2017 prompted an upgrade.Seeds from 60,000 crop varieties from across the world are being placed in the vault to back up those held in other seed banks. Continue reading…
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