Happy Birthday, Doomsday Seed Vault!
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 06:21
in Biology & Nature
What do you get a seed bank for its birthday? More seeds, of course. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrates its first birthday today with the addition of 90,000 seed samples. The vault serves as a heavy-duty backup for gene banks around the world, which strive to save humanity (and our food supply) from the scourges of monoculture and environmental catastrophes. read more