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Norway Builds Doomsday Vault for World Seeds

Site beneath Arctic mountain will preserve all essential crops

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 22, 2007 12:28 PM CDT

(Newser) – Norway has built a giant vault under an Arctic mountain, where it will preserve seeds from 21 of the world's essential crops in case disaster strikes. The so-called doomsday vault will eventually store 4.5 million seeds from crops such as wheat and rice to...   Read full story »

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