Posted by Jeff on Mar 30, 2019 @ 7:37 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: March 28, 2019
The site of the so-called ‘Doomsday vault’, designed to safeguard millions of the world’s most genetically important seeds from nuclear war, asteroid strikes and other disasters, is at threat from climate change, a new report has warned. Longyearbyen, the Arctic home of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, faces potentially devastating avalanches, rockfalls,...
Learn MorePosted by Jeff on Nov 13, 2016 @ 10:07 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: November 13, 2016
In the Arctic Circle, on the far-northern Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, a drab facility carved into the mountainside could be humanity’s last hope in the event of a global catastrophe. This is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a roughly 400-foot-long building designed to store seed samples for 4.5 million different varieties of crops from around the world, or 2.5...
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