The End of the World Vault is a space designed to withstand any cataclysm and preserve humanity's food supply, however, climate change, causing unexpected amounts of water to penetrate the vault , is threatening the integrity of this refuge.Find out what happened.
The flood of the end of the world vault due to the cold temperatures in the winter
During the last fall, the warm temperatures caused a considerable amount of water to break into the entrance of the so-called vault of the End of the World («Doomsday»), which was built in the Arctic and is considered one of the last hopes of humanity in case of a global catastrophe.
This is reported by the company that manages the Global Seed Vault located under Svalbard's permafrost ice cream, halfway between Norway and the North Pole Carved on the side of a mountain, the vault with It has more than 500 million seeds from all over the planet, which could be used to recover the world's food supplies.
Fortunately, despite the flooding of the Boveda del Fin del Mundo, the water Flitrada did not cause any damage to the seeds.Hege Njaa Aschim, spokesman for the Statsbygg company, explained that the liquid penetrated only about 15 meters from an access tunnel.
The company spokeswoman said that changes have been seen and detailed that the land is more loose and permafrost has not settled as planned.Also, I explain that the management team, together With the climate scientists at the University Center in Svalbard, still do not know if the event was part of a long-term cycle, something that would worsen quickly or simply something timely.However, they stress that they will not take risks, so they have planned to improve the construction, a project that includes removing the transformers from the tunnel entrance, allowing fewer people to enter the tunnel and building waterproof walls precisely at the entrance of the tunnel.
Located on the island of Spitsbergen, the vault is the largest seed storage in the world , created by the Norwegian government in 2008.Coming from everyone, the seed boxes are sent there for guarantee its safety and its long-term storage in cold and dry rock vaults.
The construction was designed to have a practically infinite functional life and to be built 130 meters inside the rock and 130 meters above sea level, the installation of the vault is solidly protected against external hazards and the effects of climate change, in theory.
However, the extreme climatic changes experienced the planet has proved a challenge for the project. The Arctic has undergone extraordinary warming , unprecedented in the last decades.
In this case, the seeds are they kept it safe and the vault remains the safest place for safekeeping.
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