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Seed Vault

Poem: ‘Vaulted Seeds,’ after the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Science in meter and verse Credit: J. Berger/BRG/Global Crop Diversity Trust Hoarded at the heart of an Arctic mountain, within an archipelago of snow: an ark of seeds. Cocooned against soil, nuclear bodies hunker and wait for some future hungerscape. A gathering of crops, varied faces folded into foil, shuttered…
bubmag
June 14, 2022
Seed Vault

GitHub, the world’s largest open-source software site, just had mounds of data stored in the permafrost chamber of an old coal mine deep in an Arctic mountain for 1,000 years

GitHub just stored a full archive of all current public repository data in a frozen Norwegian mountain.Dubbed the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, the project was designed "to preserve open-source software for future generations" for the next 1,000 years.Similar to how you'd back up a disk drive, GitHub is archiving all…
bubmag
July 18, 2020
Seed Vault

For Indigenous people, seeds are more than food

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the concept of seed preservation as well as more than a half-century of plastic accumulation.(Sködt McNalty/CBC)Hello, Earthlings! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable…
bubmag
June 19, 2020
Seed Vault

Study proposes “Microbial Noah’s Ark” pilot project

Credit: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) A new study finds that proposal to create a "microbial Noah's ark" to protect the long-term health of humanity is feasible and should move forward into a pilot project phase, that would include installing infrastructure to store microbes in a site such as Norway…
bubmag
June 12, 2020
Seed Vault

Study proposes ‘Microbial Noah’s Ark’ pilot project

IMAGE: A new study finds that proposal to create a 'microbial Noah's ark' to protect the long-term health of humanity is feasible and should move forward into a pilot project phase,... view more  Credit: Joana Carvalho IGC 2020 The Rutgers University's initiative will give an important contribute to the health of…
bubmag
June 12, 2020
Seed Vault

On the Resolute Nihilism of a True End Times Classic

It was summer, and most of Australia was on fire. Seasonal bushfires have always been part of Australian life, but never like those that rang in 2020. Fire fronts met in regions so remote humans rarely visited, and roared towards cities, so hot they created their own weather systems and…
bubmag
June 11, 2020
Seed Vault

A Look Inside Norway’s Doomsday Vault

Join Plus+ and get exclusive shows and extensions! Subscribe Today! It seems inevitable that at some point the world as we know it will end. Considering the world events going on right now, some might even argue that it has already begun. In many cases there doesn’t seem to really…
bubmag
June 6, 2020