
2025-08-03 03:55:03
The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place.
Since 2008, the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops.
⭐️ But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot -- at least by Arctic standards.
Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the…