![]() ![]() The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. “What happens is, in the summer the permafrost melts, and some water comes in, and when it comes in, it freezes. But according to one of the vault’s creators, the. “The tunnel was never meant to be water tight at the front, because we didn’t think we would need that,” Fowler says. The Svalbard ‘doomsday’ seed vault had flooded because of global warming-induced high temperatures melting the surrounding permafrost. “In my experience, there’s been water intrusion at the front of the tunnel every single year.” “Flooding is probably not quite the right word to use in this case,” says Cary Fowler, who helped create the seed vault. Then … news spread that water from melting permafrost had gushed into the tunnel and frozen, making the floor slick with ice but not impacting the seeds. Buy Doomsday Vault 8.99 Add to Cart About This Game Rescue Earth’s precious plant life. ![]() The vault, which was built in 2008 around 810 miles from the North Pole, was designed to serve as an underground depository where food crop seeds could be preserved in case of a global disaster. It’s operated for a little over nine years. Norways Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been breached by water flooding in through the entrance. On its website, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is described by Crop Trust-the nonprofit that runs it-as “a fail-safe seed storage facility, built to stand the test of time-and the challenge of natural or man-made disasters.” It holds backups of seeds from seed banks around the world, with the goal of preserving a legacy of crop diversity in the face of changing climate, natural disasters, and human conflicts. The irony is delicious, but that’s not the whole story. Read more: Seed bank in Arctic may be humanity’s ultimate backup plan Though water did get past the vault’s. Is the Genetic Literacy Project a corporate ‘front’? GLP responds to ongoing false allegations from US Right to Know / Organic Consumers Association / SourceWatch / Baum Hedlund / Church of ScientologyĪ failure at a fail-safe vault.GLP Integrity Policies: Privacy, Conflicts of Interest, Verification, Fact-Checking Standards and Corrections.Mission, Financial Transparency and Governance. ![]()
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