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  2. Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Wikipedia

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...

  3. Spitsbergen - Wikipedia

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a "doomsday" seedbank to store seeds from as many of the world's crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible. A cooperation between the government of Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust , the vault is cut into rock near Longyearbyen, keeping it at a natural −6 °C (21 °F) and ...

  4. Svalbard - Wikipedia

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a seedbank to store seeds from as many of the world's crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible. A cooperation between the government of Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust , the vault is cut into rock near Longyearbyen, keeping it at a natural −6 °C (21 °F) and refrigerating the ...

  5. The doomsday vault that's supposed to store every known ... - AOL

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is hidden approximately 400 feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

  6. Doomsday seed vault upgrade protects against a warming Arctic

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    When melting permafrost poured into the entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, there was an understandable worry. What good is safeguarding the world's crops in the Arctic if even that area ...

  7. Norway to spend $13 million to upgrade 'doomsday' Arctic seed ...

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is meant as a natural deep freeze to back up the world's gene banks in case of disasters, including nuclear war. Norway to spend $13 million to upgrade 'doomsday ...

  8. Arctic World Archive - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] The archive facility is on Spitsbergen, the biggest island in Svalbard. [7] The facility is a large steel vault [7] located somewhere between 150 metres (490 ft) [5] and 300 metres (980 ft) below the ground or permafrost [7] [4] inside an abandoned coal mine (Store Norske Gruve 3) that reaches over 300 metres (980 ft) into the side of a ...

  9. Agriculture in Svalbard - Wikipedia

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 2012. There used to be a farm in the central settlement and administrative capital of Svalbard, Longyearbyen. First inhabited in 1896, the town became a prominent Norwegian centre for coal mining.