Messages for a future we will never see
Vaults of biological memory
Oral traditions and the memory keepers
Written in stone, clay, and silicon
007skaty The San Diego Frozen Zoo
We freeze the cells, we trust tomorrow, we heal the wild
007skaty Decode ancient air bubbles in ice to discover how past climate data helps future generations.
007skaty Since 2008, this vault buried 120 meters inside a Spitsbergen mountain keeps global seed samples frozen at minus 18 degrees Celsius.
At what temperature are the seeds inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault kept frozen?
007skaty The Vavilov Institute preserved crop diversity to secure agricultural knowledge for future generations.
Which Soviet botanist originally established the world-famous seed collection in Leningrad?
During which historic World War II siege did scientists sacrifice their lives to protect the seed bank?
Starving for seeds: Soviet scientists starved to death during World War II rather than eating the rare seeds they were protecting.
In which region was the EPICA ice core drilled, retrieving ice nearly 800,000 years old?
What is trapped inside ancient polar ice that allows scientists to study Earth's historic atmosphere?
A secure facility where seeds are stored to preserve genetic diversity for the future. The backup facility in Svalbard, Norway, preserves over one million crop duplicates to safeguard global food security.
What substance is used to keep the genetic samples in the Frozen Zoo preserved at extremely low temperatures?