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Doomsday vault is filling up.
The Svalbard vault is inside a mountain on a remote Arctic island, is slowly being filled. Originally devised as a solution to world famine and now labeled as a "backup", part financed by the world bank. Just in... 7000 Plant Seeds from 36 African Nations in Arctic Vault
February 26, 2008 is the Grand Opening date for the Arctic Vault. Located 800 miles from the North Pole in the island of Svalbard (Norway), it will be a bank vault of sort for all the major plant and crop seeds of the world.The first delivery will be rice... "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault Opens its Doors Today
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a repository of 100 million agriculture crop seeds, received its inaugural shipment of seeds today from over 100 different countries.The seed vault, whose utility is only matched by... Magnitude-6.2 Quake Hits Norway
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake, the largest ever recorded on Norwegian territory, hit off the Arctic Svalbard islands early Thursday, the national seismic monitoring center said. No casualties or damage were reported.The Associated Press is working with NowPublic to help get...
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Doomsday seed bank gears up for business
"OSLO, Norway - Refrigeration units on Friday begin cooling a new doomsday vault dug into an already frigid Arctic mountainside to protect the world's seeds in case of a global catastrophe. Norway blasted... Britons injured by Arctic glacier
A Russian research vessel converted into a luxury sightseeing boat, came unstuck after getting closer to the towering Horn glacier at Svalbard for a better look."A group of British holidaymakers were injured on a... There Be Monsters
" Monster' fossil find in Arctic"
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