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The Svalbard Global Seed Bank Vault is one of many seed banks around the world. Other notable seed banks include The Millennium Seed Bank Project at the Royal Botanical Gardens and the world’s oldest seedbank established in 1894, the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry in St. Petersburg, Russia. Submitted
A twilight glow casts a soft light across a vast tundra of frozen permafrost, bordered by rugged peaks and valleys of jagged rock. Arctic winds howl, sweeping snow and ice into an unrelenting shroud t…