Far above the Arctic Circle on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen, built into the side of a mountain which is permanently frozen, is humanity’s greatest insurance policy.
There lie genetic backup copies for much of the world’s agricultural crops.
These seeds are stored for a day which hopefully will never come.
Learn more about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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