Built in 2008 under a mountain in Svalbard to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity, the Polar Seed Reserve experienced its first withdrawal in 2015 – not in the face of a famine or natural disaster, but because of the war in Syria. A paradox that reveals the real importance of this underground fortress. More
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Built in 2008 under a mountain in Svalbard to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity, the Polar Seed Reserve experienced its first withdrawal in 2015 – not in the face of a famine or natural disaster, but because of the war in Syria. A paradox that reveals the real importance of this underground fortress. More