DOOMSDAY VAULT SAVES SEEDS FROM POSSIBLE WORLD DISASTER

NORWAY:  The low temperature and limited supply of oxygen inside the vault prevents the seeds from ageing.

 

The permafrost surrounding the facility helps maintain the low temperature of the seeds should the electricity supply fail.

 

It can withstand a nuclear strike and aims to preserve crops in face of natural disasters and war.

 

Vault was started by conservationist Cary Fowler from the Global Crop Diversity Trust and cost £4million to construct.

See pictures - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478782/The-doomsday-vault-keeps-seeds-type-agriculture-mankind-relies-disaster-wipes-out.html


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