Doomsday Vault
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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Fowler was online Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Noon ET from Norway to answer questions about the " doomsday vault. (article 4)
Biblical references repeatedly cropped up as guests at the opening ceremony carried the first seed deposits into the vault in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. (article 3)
" This is a frozen Garden of Eden European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said, standing in one of the frosty vaults against a backdrop of large discs made of ice. (article 3)
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, just 620 miles from the North Pole, is designed to house as many as 4.5 million crop seeds from all over the world. (article 3)
The more than 100 nations that have collectively endorsed the vault's construction say it will be the most secure facility of its kind in the world. (article 1)
Crop seeds are the source of human sustenance, the product of 10,000 years of selective breeding dating to the dawn of agriculture. (article 1)
The first seeds were placed today into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a bunker in a frozen Arctic mountainside far north of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. (article 2)
The facility's supporters hope that the repository, nicknamed the doomsday vault, will one day hold seeds from almost every variety of almost every important food crop in existence. (article 2)
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Story keywords
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vault, Seeds, Svalbard, Crop, Diversity |
Source articles
- The World's Agricultural Legacy Gets A Safe Home (Washington Post, 03/16/2008, 552 words)
- 'Doomsday vault' opens for business (Nature Journals, 03/14/2008, 495 words)
- 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Opens in Arctic (Washington Post, 03/16/2008, 375 words)
- Doomsday Vault (Washington Post, 03/17/2008, 65 words)
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