"Doomsday Seed Vault" Is Opened, But Doesn't Signal End Times… Yet

The Syrian civil war is triggering the first withdrawal from a doomsday-designed protective vault that houses over 860,000 varieties of various seed types. The event has garnered significant media attention around the world, as the vault, designed to fend off global catastrophe, is being opened to address a Syrian issue. Seed vault in Norway is opened amid strife in Syria due to civil war Known as the “Doomsday Vault,” the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was created in 2008 to house the world’s largest assortment of seeds in case an apocalyptic event were to lay to waste agricultural regions. That scenario is playing itself…