![]() The idea of creating a big, international seed storage was not new, already. It may sound a bit far-fetched that the Brazilian constitution or Mexican historical documents need such protection, but apocalyptic scenarios need not be global - Syria was the first country to withdraw from the Global Seed Vault last year, and archives and government documents are often targeted in times of war, noted Tor Eivind Johansen, managing director of a Norwegian municipal archive group, KDRS, which is storing data in the mine. Feb 27, 2018, 03:09 PM EST Norway’s doomsday agricultural seed vault will get a 13 million upgrade to better protect world food supplies amid growing threats from climate change, the country announced. Svalbard Global Seed Vault was opened in February 2008 by the Norwegian government. "By doing this now, we are ensuring that future generations will have access to this information," said Ricardo Marques, the director of the National Archives of Brazil, in a brochure announcing the Arctic World Archive. The storage facility is carved into solid rock some 390 feet inside the mountain, where the seeds are kept at a temperature of -18C (-0.4F), enough to significantly delay them from aging. So far, three countries have started storing data in the mine, including Norway, Mexico and Brazil, which has included key documents from its national archives, among others. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the worlds crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic. The Doomsday Vault, managed by the Nordic Genetic Resource Center, first opened in 2008. It is the farthest north you can fly on a commercial airline, and apart from the nearby town of Longyearbyen, it is a vast white expanse of frozen emptiness. "For disaster recovery, all you need is a light source and some sort of digital camera and computer," the company says on its website, though it also offers a system for saving data in human-readable text or images, for "additional security". ![]() ![]() The data is digitsed and encoded on the film, with instructions on how to read the files included. ![]()
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