The project, called Earth's Black Box, is a giant steel archive on the remote Australian island of Tasmania, so that if some future society might one day discover the archive, they'll be able to piece together what happened to our planet.
Climate change has already led the owners of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault aka the Doomsday Vault to plunk millions of dollars into renovations to keep up with climate change.
The largest deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was made yesterday to mark ten years since the opening of the facility. There are now more than a million crop varieties in storage.
More than 70,000 of the world's most precious seeds have been sent from the UK's Millennium Seed Bank to the Middle East. The seeds will be used for food security research at a seed bank in Lebanon.
Norway’s “Doomsday Vault” is getting an expansion. Officially known as the World Arctic Archive, the vault opened this week and has already taken submissions from two countries. This time, instead of storing seeds that will survive the apocalypse, the vault is archiving data using specially developed film.
The Global Seed Vault is a vast storehouse far north of the Arctic Circle. In it are half a billion seeds from around the world. The vault is meant to safeguard humanity against losing vital food stocks to extinction, natural disaster, nuclear war or climate change.
