Doomsday Seed Vault Opens For 2012 Worries?

November 16, 2009 | Watertown, New York | Vetting explained

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This story has intrigued me since I first heard of it a few years ago. I did some checking. The doomsday vault seems to be open for business. It's especially interesting since the extraordinary disaster movie, "2012" , just opened.

"Dubbed the "Doomsday Vault," the seed bank on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean is considered the ultimate safety net for the world's seed collections, protecting them from a wide range of threats including war, natural disasters, lack of funding or simply poor agricultural management".

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/26/norway.seeds/index.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/photogalleries/seedvault-pictures/index.html

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