[SOS-PCA] NEWS: Arctic vault takes shape for world food crops

[Olivia Kwong]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/arctic_crops_vault_dc

Arctic vault takes shape for world food crops
By John Acher Thu Sep 20, 2:36 AM ET

LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard (Reuters) - In a cavern under a remote Arctic 
mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds 
in case of disaster.

Dynamited out of a mountainside on Spitsbergen island around 1,000 km (600 
miles) from the North Pole, the store has been called a doomsday vault or 
a Noah's Ark of the plant kingdom.

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