Norwegian doomsday vault5/7/2023 "This is a seed collection, but more importantly it is a collection of the traits found within the seeds: the genes that give one variety resistance to a particular pest and another variety tolerance for hot, dry weather," said the American Scientist in a 2016 report. Located within the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, this formidable seed bank rises dramatically from. The vault keeps seed samples – and duplicate samples – preserved under certain conditions for such an occasion in case it ever happens. On the small arctic island of Spitsbergen, it turns out. It's known as the "Doomsday" vault because it contains seeds for every crop civilization would need to resume life in the event of a catastrophe. (MORE: Sharp Rise in Flooding Ahead for World's Poorest) Millions of these tiny brown specks, from more than 930,000 varieties of food crops, are stored in the Global Seed Vault on Spitsbergen, part of Norways. The Global Music Vault is spearheaded by Oslo-based Elire Management Group, which claims the building should last for at least 1,000 years buried beneath 1,000-feet of snow on the Svalbard archipelago. Yet it is somewhat comforting to know that if we are wiped out by a nuclear war, global warming, or an alien invasion, this remote, little-known facility might be the key to bringing us back from the. A 'Doomsday vault' for recorded music is being constructed on an arctic island between the North Pole and Norway. "It was not in our plans to think that the permafrost would not be there and that it would experience extreme weather like that," Norwegian government spokesperson Hege Njaa Aschim told the Guardian. Perhaps we will get things under control and make things work, and the seed vault of Norway can remain a forgotten oddity out in the frozen wilds. As the Arctic continues to set record highs, the permafrost was pushed above the melting point, and water seeped into the vault which is built into a mountain, the report added.īecause the vault's interior is kept at subzero temperatures, the water only leaked into its entrance before freezing, and none of the nearly one million packets of seeds were harmed, the Guardian also said. The Global Seed Vault, located on Norway's Spitsbergen Island, took on water during the winter because of melting permafrost, according to the Guardian. A seed vault in the Arctic that's supposed to preserve the world's food supply for hundreds of years was partially flooded in recent months, and one of the reasons it was built in the first place is believed to be the culprit.
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