Apocalyptic seed vault9/13/2023 Some say that a zombie apocalypse or a natural disaster will be our demise, but you can stay prepared no matter what happens with the Survival Seed Vault. It brought the total deposits in the snow-covered vault-with a capacity of 4.5 million-to 940,000. The Survival Seed Vault Packs Emergency Food for the End of the World. The 50,000 samples deposited Wednesday were from seed collections in Benin, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, the U.S., Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and Britain. "The reconstituted seeds will play a critical role in developing climate-resilient crops for generations," Abousabaa said. The agency borrowed the seeds three years ago because it could not access its gene bank of 141,000 specimens in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo, and so was unable to regenerate and distribute them to breeders and researchers. and Mexico, have been deposited in the world's largest repository, built to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out global food crops. Nearly 10 years after a "doomsday" seed vault opened on an Arctic island off Norway, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections ranging from India, the Middle East, northern Africa and Europe to the U.S. 2016 file photo of the interior of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the secure seed bank on Svalbard, Norway. Speaking from Svalbard, Aly Abousabaa, the head of the International Center for Agricultural Research, said Thursday that borrowing and reconstituting the seeds before returning them had been a success and showed that it was possible to "find solutions to pressing regional and global challenges." The specimens consisted of seed samples for some of the world's most vital food sources like potato, sorghum, rice, barley, chickpea, lentil and wheat. The Svalbard seed vault: A survival bunker for civilization by Adam Lee Credit: Marcin Kadziolka / Shutterstock (editorial use) Overview: How could we reengineer civilization to be resilient against catastrophe A vault of seeds slumbering in Arctic permafrost suggests one way. They were the first to retrieve seeds from the vault in 2015 before returning new ones after multiplying and reconstituting them. Melting Permafrost Causes Flooding in Seed Vault The seed vault is designed to hold seeds to all the worlds crops for hundreds or thousands of years. The latest specimens sent to the bank, located on the Svalbard archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, included more than 15,000 reconstituted samples from an international research center that focuses on improving agriculture in dry zones. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a gene bank built underground on the isolated island in a permafrost zone some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the North Pole, was opened in 2008 as a master backup to the world's other seed banks, in case their deposits are lost.
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