
It sounds like something out of the movies but there is a ‘doomsday’ vault which is designed to save humanity. Looking like something from a Mission Impossible film, it is hidden away in a place called Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard Norwegian archipelago. An archipelago is a group of small islands, but there’s no sign of Tom Cruise. Surrounded by snow, ice and polars bears, the vault is a facility which houses 1.2million different seed samples from around the world. These seeds are relied upon by humans for survival. For example, crops for food. The idea is that if these seeds…
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