The Doomsday Vault
The Doomsday Vault
The future of humanity could lie within a large concrete room, hewn
out of a mountain on a freezing island just 1000 kilometres from the
North Pole. The facility is designed to hold around 2 million types
of seed, representing all known varieties of the world's crops. New
Scientist has learned that the Norwegian government is planning to
create the seed bank next year to safeguard the world's food supply
against nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels
and earthquakes...
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925343.700