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The Norwegian government is planning to allocate 100 million kroner ($13 million) in technical improvements to enhance a doomsday seed vault situated on an Arctic island<\/strong>, built nearly a decade ago to protect the world\u2019s food supplies from an apocalypse, a government press release<\/a> said Friday.<\/p>\n

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank buried deep inside a mountain<\/strong> on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The underground bunker is a long-term seed storage facility, built to keep its three vaults cool for 200-years \u2014 and can survive natural or human-made disasters.<\/p>\n

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The doomsday vault serves as a storage facility for more than 850,000 seed samples, according to the Public Radio Institute, which the three vault rooms are cooled to -18\u00a0\u00b0C (-3 \u00b0F).<\/p>\n

Cary Fowler, the founder of Svalbard Global Seed Vault, calls the facility, \u201cthe backup insurance policy for all the seed banks around the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is that we want to provide fail-safe protection for the diversity of our agricultural crops, diversity that is stored in the form of seeds,\u201d Fowler says.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need freezing temperatures to conserve seeds long term. So we went close to the north pole, where it\u2019s\u00a0very cold, and we built a facility inside of a mountain, which makes it also very secure. There we\u2019re storing backup copies \u2014 seed samples of, currently, more than 850,000 different crop varieties,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> he added.<\/p>\n

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Norway\u2019s\u00a0Minister of Agriculture and Food Jon Georg Dale said, \u201cthe upgrades, which we hope to begin presently, will ensure that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault can continue to offer the world\u2019s\u00a0gene banks a secure storage space in the future. It is a great and important task to safeguard all the genetic material that is crucial to global food security.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arctic Doomsday Seed-Vault Is Getting Some Major Upgrades The Norwegian government is planning to allocate 100 million kroner ($13 million) in technical improvements to enhance a doomsday seed vault situated on an Arctic island, built nearly a decade ago to protect the world\u2019s food supplies from an apocalypse, a government press release said Friday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18931,1241,9259,4318],"class_list":["post-31583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-doomsday-seed-vault","tag-norway","tag-svalbard-global-seed-vault","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31584,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583\/revisions\/31584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}