Norway’s “Doomsday Vault” will open tomorrow, just in time to safeguard our biodiversity against the apocalypse. Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, about 620 miles from the North Pole, the vault has been built to withstand nuclear missiles or a plane crash on top of it, but it’s also far enough above sea level that it won’t be flooded by melting icecaps. Click through for more images of the Doomsday Vault.
The vault will hold up to 4.5 million batches of seeds for the world’s main food crops, allowing humanity to re-establish agriculture if our main food plants disappear due to a catastrophe. Already, “gene vaults” from Iraq and Afghanistan were destroyed due to the wars in those countries. Images by AP.
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