At the end of February, The Global Seed Vault received its first seeds, millions of them. It is housed in a silo bored into the side of a mountain the The Artic. The vault’s goal is to store and protect samples of every type of seed from every seed collection in the world. Are they hedging their bets on global disaster?
Seed Vault Silo Near Artic
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