Despite the long shadow humanity throws over its own future, ‘Underland’ is for the most part an engrossing account of our ever-changing relationship with the subterranean landscape, writes Declan Burke.

AN official deposit of Irish agriculture seeds to the recently opened Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway was made yesterday.

A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened today deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

AIMED at providing mankind with a Noah’s Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic “doomsday vault” filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds will be inaugurated in Norway today.