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Norwegian Seed Bank is Flooded; Seeds Unharmed

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-they-can-grow! dept.

butthurt writes:

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 butthurt on Saturday May 20 2017, @11:55PM (1 child)

    by butthurt (6141) on Saturday May 20 2017, @11:55PM (#512793) Journal

    The Guardian article says that the seeds are kept in packets; I don't know whether those are waterproof. The article says that the flooding was only in an entrance tunnel: the water froze before reaching the area where the seeds are actually stored.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @08:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @08:49AM (#512937)

    My vision is of a whole lot of Tupperware.
    Even if the place floods, the stuff just floats in air-tight/waterproof bins.

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