The « fail-safe » Svalbard seed vault meant to save us from « doomsday » scenarios just flooded thanks to climate change — Quartz
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C’est ballot, quand même, que la super réserve de graines pour résister à la fin du monde soit déjà en train de fondre seulement 9 ans après la mise en service.
“It was not in our plans to think that the permafrost would not be there and that it would experience extreme weather like that,” Hege Njaa Aschim, a spokeswoman for the Norwegian government agency which manages the vault, told the Guardian.
Water flooded into the entrance tunnel to the vault after the unusual season, the Guardian reported Friday (May 19).Thankfully, the water froze before it reached the seed storage areas (to preserve their viability, seeds are stored at -18 Celsius, or just below 0 degrees Fahrenheit). “[I]t was like a glacier when you went in,” Aschim said.