Norway's 'seed ark' opens

A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened today deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Norway's 'seed ark' opens

A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened today deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

“The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance policy,” Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told delegates at the opening ceremony.

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