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The Arctic Seed Vault Shows the Flawed Logic of Climate Adaptation
The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to prevent climate disaster rather than plan for it ...
‘Doomsday Vault’ will feed world in future ‘food apocalypse’ – but it’s forbidden to enter more than three times a year
HALF-BURIED in an Arctic mountain, on an island between Norway and the North Pole, protrudes a giant metal wedge. And while ...
Festivals of seeds and the rains of love
Late August and early September rains in Goa, known as moga pavs, are gentle and beneficial for planting. Festivals like ...
The remote island 410 miles from civilisation that's full of dangerous predators
There are about 270 polar bears on the 38,000 sq-km island. So dangerous are polar bear attacks that locals cannot venture ...
Remote arctic island ‘once home to Vikings’ & now inhabited by dangerous predators that hides chilling ‘Doomsday Vault’
A SECLUDED island nestled in the Arctic Ocean is the home to a dangerous apex predator and a “Doomsday” vault. Boasting ...
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‘Doomsday Vault’ will feed world in future ‘food apocalypse’ – but it’s forbidden to enter more than three times a year
The vault played a critical role in restoring damaged seed collections in Syria between 2015 and 2019, when the country was ravaged by war. Svalbard's Global Seed Vault has even inspired a similar ...
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Remote arctic island ‘once home to Vikings’ & now inhabited by dangerous predators that hides chilling ‘Doomsday Vault’
Located in Longyearbyen, the island's capital, is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The vault holds the seeds of the world's food plants in the event of a global food crisis. The vault construction ...
Arctic warming may fuel ice formation in clouds, observations suggest
The Arctic frequently experiences temperatures that support the formation of mixed-phase clouds that contain supercooled ...
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Scientists want to build a ‘doomsday’ vault on the moon
An ensuing flood breached the entrance tunnel of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built into the mountain as a fortress to safeguard the world’s seeds. The rush of water signified a dire warning ...