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The Guardian reports that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed bank near Longyearbyen on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, has flooded due to "melting and heavy rain." The seeds remain safe, according to the article.
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(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:41PM (2 children)
A seed bank for all eternity, that can be flooded by a rainstorm. Note - not melt, just rain, which tends to happen in Spring time.
Right near the front: "there’s been water intrusion at the front of the tunnel every single year". So it's not a new problem at all - certainly nothing to do with global warming - it's just crappy engineering and/or construction.
Clickbait for the "end of the world" types.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Saturday May 20 2017, @11:12PM (1 child)
I can almost bet there's at least one engineer related to the project that pointed out this issue and were ignored. Like Challenger.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @07:27PM
I can bet there's one CEO who got a nice bonus who is long gone and ru(i)nning some other project.