The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway
As a gift to the world, Norway has built and now maintains a seed vault that contains millions of seeds of thousands of varieties of plants and food crops. The purpose of this vault is to preserve and protect the diversity of plant and crop life on earth. Experts fear that civil unrest or a climate catastrophe could wipe out certain strains of important food crops, thus jeopardizing the global food supply. Paid for by the Norweigians, this vault is built into the permafrost of an island near the Norway coast. Even without electricity, the seeds will remain frozen and preserved. The underground vault was completed in 2008 and had been receiving new deposits since it opened. So what's in your freezer?
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