The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Photographer Caroline Poiron tracks embryos of plant life from their origin on a farm in Hyderabad, India to the
Caroline Poiron / Light Mediation

Cold Storage
At a temperature of -18 C, the vault could potentially preserve seeds from most food crops for hundreds of years.

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