This vault filled with seeds in **rway could help bring Earth back from an apocalypse
 

This vault filled with seeds in **rway could help bring Earth back from an apocalypse
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Buried within a mountain on a **rwegian island **t far from the **rth Pole, collections of seeds from countries around the world lie in wait.

Safely burrowed into the rocky waste of Plataberget Mountain in Svalbard, **rway deep e**ugh to protect it from air temperature rises and high e**ugh to avoid flooding if sea levels rise, the Svalbard Global*Seed Vault exists, according to its executive director Åslaug Haga, to “safeguard one of the most important natural resources” – plants -- from disaster.

The vault, which opened in Svalbard, **rway 2008,*is designed to last 1,000 years and withstand a wide range of potential doomsday scenarios, including climate change, nuclear war, and even an asteroid strike. Read more...

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