photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault The doomsday Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway–begun as protection against any potential future calamity that threatens global food production–just turned two years old and has also just passed the half million mark in terms of seed varieties saved. This makes

it the most diverse collection of crop diversity anywhere in the world. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Arctic Doomsday Vault Now Has Half Million Samples – Becomes World’s Most Diverse Collection of Saved Seeds