Monday, June 19, 2006

Construction of Norway's Doomsday Vault Begins Today

"It sounds like something from a science fiction filmâ??a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island. But Norway's ambitious project is on its way to becoming reality Monday when construction begins on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, designed to house as many as 3 million of the world's crop seeds."

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