This video, from National Geographic, shows the interior of the big global seed vault built in the Svalbard islands, near Longyearbyen.

The Svalbard archipelago does not include Spitsbergen only, the biggest and inhabitated one, but also several other islands. In the web site you can find a list of the principal islands of Svalbard.

More than 30 scientists from various European countries are currently travelling to Ny-Ålesund. During the next six weeks, they will participate in a large-scale study about the effect of increased CO2-concentrations on the pelagic marine ecosystem. The experiment is part of the EU-project EPOCA about Ocean Acidification, addressing one of the most critical topics in […]