World Seed Vault Flooded After Massive Arctic Permafrost Melting by Warming Climate

Arctic stronghold of world's seeds flooded after permafrost melts

It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world's most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity's food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.