At a latitude of 78 degrees north lies the northernmost city in the world. It is an odd place. Way above the Arctic Circle—a mere 814 miles from the North Pole—Longyearbyen, in Norway’s Svalbard ...
You may have heard of various projects to back up the Earth's best bits should anything catastrophic happen. The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, for example, keeps a 'backup' of over a million seeds to ...