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09-22-2015, 01:14 PM
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The following article talks about the Doomsday Bank, which is a seed vault.
The vault was established to protect the world's most important crops from cataclysmic events. The Syrian war has brought about the first withdrawal from the “doomsday bank”, a giant vault in an Arctic mountain that is meant to protect the world’s food in the event of a huge disaster. Researchers in the Middle East have asked for seeds including those of wheat, barley and grasses, all of which are chosen because especially resistant to dry conditions. It is the first withdrawal from the bank, which was built in 2008.
Those researchers would normally request the seeds from a bank in Aleppo. But that centre has been damaged by the war — while some of its functions continue, and its cold storage still works, it has been unable to provide the seeds that are needed by the rest of the Middle East, as it once did.The Arctic vault is designed to protect samples of seeds that could then be used to restart the plants’ growth in the event of cataclysmic events like an outbreak of disease or a nuclear war.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...12015.html
The following article talks about the Doomsday Bank, which is a seed vault.
The vault was established to protect the world's most important crops from cataclysmic events. The Syrian war has brought about the first withdrawal from the “doomsday bank”, a giant vault in an Arctic mountain that is meant to protect the world’s food in the event of a huge disaster. Researchers in the Middle East have asked for seeds including those of wheat, barley and grasses, all of which are chosen because especially resistant to dry conditions. It is the first withdrawal from the bank, which was built in 2008.
Those researchers would normally request the seeds from a bank in Aleppo. But that centre has been damaged by the war — while some of its functions continue, and its cold storage still works, it has been unable to provide the seeds that are needed by the rest of the Middle East, as it once did.The Arctic vault is designed to protect samples of seeds that could then be used to restart the plants’ growth in the event of cataclysmic events like an outbreak of disease or a nuclear war.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...12015.html
