A Rare Look Inside The Doomsday Seed Vault Deep In The Arctic
If society endures an apocalypse what will we eat?! Seed vaults are our food-preservation time capsule for the future. Why Humanity Needs This Doomsday Seed Vault - http://bit.ly/28MYfTx...
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That's me! I'm on Svalbard, an archipelago 800 miles from the North Pole. There are polar bears and glaciers, and also the most amazing genetic library I have ever seen... Howdy seeders of knowledge, Trace here for DNews. If you’ve never heard of Svalbard before, it’s this place right here. Waaay up there on top of the planet. It's far away from civilization, but Svalbard might be one of the most important places in the world. The place in charge of protecting the future of our food. In there, you have 13,000 years history of agriculture. It's quite amazing. That's Marie Haga, she's the Executive Director of the CropTrust, the group that oversees the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Inside that vault are boxes, and inside the boxes? Seeds...
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That's me! I'm on Svalbard, an archipelago 800 miles from the North Pole. There are polar bears and glaciers, and also the most amazing genetic library I have ever seen... Howdy seeders of knowledge, Trace here for DNews. If you’ve never heard of Svalbard before, it’s this place right here. Waaay up there on top of the planet. It's far away from civilization, but Svalbard might be one of the most important places in the world. The place in charge of protecting the future of our food. In there, you have 13,000 years history of agriculture. It's quite amazing. That's Marie Haga, she's the Executive Director of the CropTrust, the group that oversees the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Inside that vault are boxes, and inside the boxes? Seeds...
