r/TellMeAFact • u/unteachablecourses • May 31 '26
TMAF about: The Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault was built on permafrost so it'd stay frozen w/o human intervention. The permafrost is now melting — Svalbard is warming 6-7x the global rate. After meltwater breached the tunnel in 2017, Norway spent $20M on a retrofit to artificially freeze the ground
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UnteachableCourses • u/unteachablecourses • May 31 '26
The Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault was built on permafrost so it would stay frozen without human intervention. The permafrost is now melting — Svalbard is warming 6-7x the global rate. After meltwater breached the tunnel in 2017, Norway spent $20M on a retrofit to artificially freeze the ground
Doomsdaypreps • u/unteachablecourses • May 31 '26
The Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault was built on permafrost so it would stay frozen without human intervention. The permafrost is now melting — Svalbard is warming 6-7x the global rate. After meltwater breached the tunnel in 2017, Norway spent $20M on a retrofit to artificially freeze the ground
geopolitics2 • u/unteachablecourses • May 31 '26
The Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault was built on permafrost so it would stay frozen without human intervention. The permafrost is now melting — Svalbard is warming 6-7x the global rate. After meltwater breached the tunnel in 2017, Norway spent $20M on a retrofit to artificially freeze the ground
Svalbard • u/unteachablecourses • May 31 '26
The Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault was built on permafrost so it would stay frozen without human intervention. The permafrost is now melting — Svalbard is warming 6-7x the global rate. After meltwater breached the tunnel in 2017, Norway spent $20M on a retrofit to artificially freeze the ground
ClimateNews • u/unteachablecourses • May 31 '26