Svalbard Global Seed Vault - This seed bank is being built inside a mountain on Spitsbergen Island near the small village of Longyearbyen.
The bank will have dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors, two airlocks, and walls of...
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault - This seed bank is being built inside a mountain on Spitsbergen Island near the small village of Longyearbyen.
The bank will have dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors, two airlocks, and walls of steel-reinforced concrete one meter thick. It will contain up to three million different varieties of seeds from around the world, "so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future"
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a non-profit effort.
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More than 320,000 seed species from all over the world are now safely stored in the Norwegian permafrost at The Svalbard Global Seed Vault . The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change. The seed vault will be built 120m (364ft) inside a mountain on Spitsbergen, one of four islands that make up Svalbard. An artists view of the vault: Dr Fowler said Svalbard, 1,000km (621 miles) north of mainland Norway... Read Full Story
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(AFP) – The stores of seeds in a "doomsday" vault in the Norwegian
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food supply against devastating crop losses as a result of climate
change, said Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop
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"These resources stand between us and catastrophic starvation," Fowler
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Hi guys,accoring to video comment about this videoPlanet X is coming, and Norway has begun with storage of food and seeds in the Svalbard area and in the arctic north with the help of the US and EU and all around in Norway. They will only save those that are in the elite of power and those that can build up again: doctors, scientists.About Plant x is coming or not its need to do more resach about but but this concept is good to safe gaurd seeds of this earth for coming genration. NBC News... Read Full Story
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