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'Doomsday' seed bank to be built
Norway is planning to build a "doomsday
vault" inside a mountain on an Arctic
island to hold a seed bank of all known
varieties of the world's crops.
The Norwegian government will hollow
out a cave on the ice-bound island of
Spitsbergen to hold the seed bank.
It will be designed to withstand global
catastrophes like nuclear war or
natural disasters that would destroy
the planet's sources of food.
Seed collection is being organised by
the Global Crop Diversity Trust.
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