[makerofspoons]

I was hoping for more of a description on how they plan to keep this vault safer than the Global Seed Vault, which was once flooded due to soaring arctic temperatures: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-s...

[erikbye]

That was sensationalism, per usual. Bit of water in the access tunnel, no seed damage.

[price]

The story says right up front in the subhed that the flooding didn't reach the seeds. But the quotes make it pretty clear that what did happen was out of spec.

For something that's meant to survive any catastrophe that might happen over centuries to come, it's not a good sign to see that happen so early. It's extra bad to see it driven by a trend, namely global warming, that we're continuing to push farther and farther and have shown few signs of stopping.