Doomsday vault to avert world famine

January 13, 2006 | Source: NewScientist.com news service

A “doomsday vault” designed to hold around 2 million seeds, representing all known varieties of the world’s crops, is being built 1000 kilometers from the North Pole by the Norwegian government to safeguard the world’s food supply against nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes and the ensuing collapse of electricity supplies.