Arctic Cavern Saftey Net for Crops
Published on September 20th, 2007
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LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard (Reuters) – In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world’s crop seeds in case of disaster.
Dynamited out of a mountainside on Spitsbergen island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole, the store has been called a doomsday vault or a Noah’s Ark of the plant kingdom.
