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/ 11 November 2007

Frozen vault saves crops for mankind

Engineers last week finished work on one of the world’s most ambitious conservation projects: a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside in the archipelago of Svalbard, a few hundred kilometres from the North Pole. Over the next few weeks, the huge cavern will be filled with more than a million types of seed.

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