In a remote mountainside on the Norwegian tundra sits the “doomsday vault,” a backup against disaster — manmade or otherwise. Inside lives the last hope should the unthinkable occur: a global seedbank that could be used to replant the world.
It’s a modern day Noah’s Ark, in other words, full not of animals but of plantlife.
The Vault is dug into the Platåberget or plateau mountain near the village of Longyearbyen, Svalbard — a group of islands north of mainland Norway. The arctic permafrost offers natural freezing for the seeds, while additional cooling brings the temperatures down to minus 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Should disaster wipe out a species — or in the case of a large-scale global crisis — its stockers hope the seeds stored there could be used to restore life.
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