{"id":471,"date":"2009-06-17T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2009-06-17T11:52:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:52:37","slug":"svalbard-seed-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/svalbard-seed-vault\/","title":{"rendered":"svalbard seed vault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEED Magazine has a <a href=\"http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/slideshow\/in_seeds_we_trust\/\">slideshow<\/a> of images from the recently completed Svalbard Seed Vault, coverage of which is especially timely in light of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5iR2f5zQN-R3dLfedf5okchPd8sWQ\">rather apocalyptic report<\/a> (short version: in 2080 DC will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchange.gov\/images\/cir\/hi-res\/11-southeast-pg-112_top.png\">feel like South Florida<\/a>, and might be just as underwater) issued yesterday by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchange.gov\/\">US Global Change Research Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-474\" title=\"seed-vault\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/seed-vault.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/seed-vault.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/seed-vault-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/content\/article\/in_seeds_we_trust\/P1\/\">article<\/a>, discussing the geopolitics of seed collection, the place of the Seed Vault in The Global Crop Diversity Trust&#8217;s globalized network of genetic preservation, and the potential role of crop seeds and genes in mitigating the impacts of climate change, is well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p><em>[BLDGBLOG coverage of the seed vault from 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/inside-vault.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/botanical-arctic-ark-archive-and-coming.html\">here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEED Magazine has a slideshow of images from the recently completed Svalbard Seed Vault, coverage of which is especially timely in light of the rather apocalyptic report (short version: in 2080 DC will feel like South Florida, and might be just as underwater) issued yesterday by the US Global Change Research Program. The accompanying article, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[130,129,128],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-arctic-archtiecture","tag-genetics","tag-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}