![]() ![]() “A lot of water went into the start of the tunnel and then it froze to ice, so it was like a glacier when you went in. “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, a spokesperson for the Norwegian government, told The Guardian at the time. It was high enough above sea level that rising waters would not be a concern cold enough that the seeds would remain frozen even without mechanical refrigeration and remote enough that it seemed unlikely to be affected by war.īy 2017, however, it was clear that even the “Doomsday” Vault was not impervious to the effects of global warming - rising temperatures in the region caused permafrost to melt, sending water flooding into the vault’s entryway. When the Seed Vault opened, Spitsbergen seemed like an ideal location for such a facility. The source of the seeds isn’t the only remarkable thing about the latest deposit. Due to Syria's civil war, it will now allow a withdrawal of its contents for the first time in its existence. Buried in the side of a mountain in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault stores virtually every. Deep in the Arctic, nestled inside an icy island lies one of humanitys backup plan: the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It contains deposits of nearly 865,000 varieties of seeds buried within a mountain in case of catastrophe. “Generations from now, these seeds will still hold our history and there will always be a part of the Cherokee Nation in the world,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. The doomsday seed vault on Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago houses the world's back up supply of seeds to ensure crop diversity. This deposit consisted of a variety of beans, corn, and ceremonial tobacco. to contribute their traditional seeds to the Doomsday Vault. One of those groups, the Cherokee Nation, became the first tribe based in the U.S. Eight of the 36 groups had never deposited seeds into the Svalbard vault before. ![]()
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