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James Randerson
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/ 20 January 2006

Freezing the future

The future of humanity may soon rest deep in a frozen mountain on a remote Norwegian island. The Norwegian government plans to build a ”doomsday vault” to house two million seeds that represent the entire agricultural diversity of the planet. The idea is to safeguard the world’s food supply against threats such as nuclear war, climate change and rising sea levels.

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