In just under a month, world leaders will gather in Paris to try to agree to a new course of action to tackle climate change. One key concern is that global warming could affect food crops. To help guarantee that key plants survive the worst possible scenarios, samples of seeds are being gathered in what’s called the Global Seed Vault — an underground store on the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic. It’s an eerie feeling approaching what’s meant to be the safest place on the planet. High on a wind-blasted Arctic mountain, a stark concrete doorway leads to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Designed to cope with the most pessimistic nightmare of an apocalypse, a day spent...
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