No flood as widely but incorrectly reported. Seeds at opposite end.- Cary Fowler May 20, 2017 India last month commissioned its own 'doomsday vault' for long-term storage of crops germplasm at a permanently frozen mountain in western Himalayas. Some water enters tunnel just inside beyond building you see yearly and is pumped out. India joined the global initiative in securing crop genetic diversity by depositing 25 ICAR accessions of pigeon pea in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Emmanuel Upputuru, Chief Creative Officer, Cheil India. The site, which is famously known as the Doomsday Vault, has a capacity for 4.5 million varieties of crops, with a maximum of 2.5 billion seeds, reports Time.

Seeds are stored at 18 degrees Celsius in specially-designed four-ply foil packages that are placed in sealed boxes. Inspired by the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, The Community ventured up to the Arctic. STORAGE capacity is 4.5 million seed samples (500 seeds/sample). Each vault is approximately 27 m long, 9.5 m to 10 m wide, and 6 m high. There are others who are of the view that the incident is being overplayed and that no actual flooding took place.Ĭary Fowler, former executive director of the Crop Trust - the firm that helped create the vault - posted on Twitter to clarify there had been no 'flooding' at the It didn't flood. THE VAULT is 145.9 m from the front door of the portal building to the back of the vault. The Norwegian government has confirmed its plans to uplift the vault's defenses after the leak. The Vault’s Storage This Seed Vault has the capacity to store 4.5 million varieties of crops together.

It will secure lives for centuries and will represent every important crop variety available in the world today. #ClimateChange /bVPkhKVnCe- DEIMOS IMAGING May 22, 2017ĮFFORTS TO MAKE FACILITY EVEN MORE IMPENETRABLE This Vault is the most ultimate policy of the supply of food for the world. The Global #SeedVault in #Svalbard, seen by #DEIMOS2, as melting permafrost flooded its entrance.

The image is of the fortress in the Arctic - Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Thankfully the so-called 'flooding' did not harm any of the seeds but Earth observation company Deimos Imaging released pictures of the damage to the 'Doomsday Vault' as captured by its Deimos-2 satellite, according to an RT report. However, internal damage to the structure is minimal. In this media landscape, its not surprising that Oreo commissioned a 'doomsday' vault to preserve the iconic cookies in case of an asteroid. Melted Permafrost water 'gushed' into the entrance of the vault on May 19, which is often deemed as a fortress.

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