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Links What happened to the “fail-safe” Svalbard seed vault designed to save us from crop failure. http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ffT Washington Post: preposterously warm winter Inside Climate news: began melting at an alarming rate **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 22nd of May 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we bring troubling news. The seedbank at Svalbard was flooded. I’m sure we can all understand that mixing seeds and water is not ideal for long term preservation of said seed stocks. There is, though, much more to this than first meets the eye. Svalbard was the doomsday defense for humanity’s food seeds. So far above the arctic circle and never above -18degrees C that’s around zero degrees F, the facility was set up as a set and forget operation. The ground temperature rarely varied, the ground continually frozen, a safe place for our food seeds. All this sounds great but and I quote: Quote: The Arctic experienced a preposterously warm winter last season, and the permafrost, which has b