"At the Seed Vault’s tenth anniversary celebrations five years ago, water had to be pumped out of its entrance foyers after another warmest month on record melted the permafrost that was the whole reason the vault had been built in Longyearbyen." —Sam Kinchin-Smith for London Review of Books
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/june/the-singing-glaciers-of-svalbard