Climate

In a twist of cosmic irony, the Svalbard seed repository built in Norway in 2008 to preserve crop seeds from climate change flooded because… the surrounding permafrost melted due to climate change.

Thankfully the seeds seem to be ok for now. But with the Arctic warming four times faster than the global average, I don’t know that we can say the same of our planet

In a twist of cosmic irony, the Svalbard seed repository built in Norway in 2008 to preserve crop seeds from climate change flooded because… the surrounding permafrost melted due to climate change.

Thankfully the seeds seem to be ok for now. But with the Arctic warming four times faster than the global average, I don’t know that we can say the same of our planet

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arctic-seed-vault-shows-the-flawed-logic-of-climate-adaptation/

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Climate change irony: Svalbard seed vault floods due to melting permafrost. Seeds safe for now, but future uncertain