A Rare Look Inside The Doomsday Seed Vault Deep In The Arctic

If society endures an apocalypse what will we eat?! Seed vaults are our food-preservation time capsule for the future.


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Svalbard Global Seed Vault
"Deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, lies the Global Seed Vault."

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"Earlier this month (October 19, 2015), seeds deposited in 2012 from war-torn Syria became the Svalbard Global Seed Vault's first-ever withdrawal. The seed vault - located in Norway, sometimes called the Doomsday Vault - was built in 2008. Since then, researchers there have been storing containers of seeds from all parts of the globe in the vault, and this is the first time they've removed seeds."

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[Master_Therion]

Thank you Norway for doing this. I wrote a poem for you:
A diversity of plant breeds,
Necessitate storing their seeds.
Not a vault of human greed,
But a safeguard for future need. ^_^

[chestertheblack]

If only Discovery Channel and National Geographic created series like this agian. I'm tired of reality TV still infesting every broadcasting channel.

[Moscato_Moscato]

So in some ways...this is the modern Noah's Ark if but with plants

[abelramirez]

That vault could be the center of a plot for an awesome movie.

[KindledEmbers]

If an apocalypse happens I know where i'm going.

[Mckiller]

Idk what it is but her voice is soothing

[rrcw]

amazing video. great content. thanks for the effort put into producing it.

[Shallabais]

I LOOOVE the documentary style of this video

[BIOSHOCKFOXX]

"300 seeds in each, and that's all there is. That's it." *smiles weirdly*
Time for conspiracies.

[chaquinn]

If an apocalypse ever happened id run around naked screaming "WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB!"

[billyblackattacks]

when she says that all there is there is "seeds...thats it. just seeds" she sounds very shady to me

[phunkymind]

I used to think that Svalbard was a fictional place for The Golden Compass.

[Asimovum]

Awesome Trace! Glad to see how this channel growed and evolved, I want to see more videos in this style! Can you visit some of the amazing experiments done at Anctarctica, as for example IceCube Neutrino Observatory, or the great observatory in Atacama desert?

[paulgracey]

OK, so the seeds are all there, but is the information necessary to utilize then there too? If not, is it as distributed as the provenance of the seeds themselves, or is there another "library" just for the instructions.

[StarMonkies]

God this was like the good old days of the discovery channel....

[shmookins]

Good video. I was emotional when the lady talked.
I wish the video also talked about the security and design of the building. For example, it is designed to survive a nuclear blast.
Science is awesome, and it only takes a very few of us to make a huge difference. :)

[rafaquiroz]

seeds from all parts of the world next to each other without bs just sittin' there, unlike us humans.

[DeadpoolJust]

Love the little intro to another video at the end. The Large Hadron Collider video brought me to this video

[nicholasthope]

The background music is very suiting and calm. What is the name of the track?

[kylsters]

This type of video is way better than the usual ones