It said the vault "is taking appropriate measures to ensure the protection of the seed vault and improve the construction to prevent future incidents." Yet in the northern country of Norway, out buried away far from all of out drama, is a top secret, off limits facility that seeks to keep us alive in the event that things truly go south. "The seeds are completely safe and no damage has been done to the facility," the seed vault said in a press statement. “It was not in our plans to think that the permafrost would not be there and that it would experience extreme weather like that,” Hege Njaa Aschim, from the Norwegian government, told the Guardian.įortunately, she said the meltwater did not reach the vault itself, and the precious seeds remain safe, for now. Sometimes called the doomsday vault, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is seen as humanitys last hope against extinction after a world crisis.
In fact, the Arctic is warming at more than twice the rate of lower latitudes, Just over a decade after it first opened, the world’s doomsday vault of seeds is imperiled by climate change as the polar region where it’s located warms faster than any other area on the planet. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which opened in late February 2008, was built by the organization Crop Trust and the. Norway’s Doomsday Vault Backup important data and keep it safe forever Publish On 01, Aug 2019 Norway’s Doomsday Vault Backup important data and keep it safe forever For most of human history, about 10,000 years ago, we began to domesticate plants as a way to make our food supply more accessible. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frhvelv) is a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of. Since 1900, it's warmed by a whopping 6 degrees, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. Just over a decade after it first opened, the world’s doomsday vault of seeds is imperiled by climate change as the polar region where it’s located warms faster than any other area on the planet. The storage vaultin Norway’s Svalbard archipelago 800 miles above the Arctic Circlewas designed to ensure that nature’s vast array of genes is not lost. Or so they thought: The Arctic has seen extraordinary, unprecedented warming over the past several decades, fueled by man-made climate change. Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen.
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