Noah's Ark of Food

Noah's Ark of Food

  • Arctic "doomsday vault" US$3-million, late 2008
  • Surmount the effects of climate change in case of a global catastrophe
  • Top-security repository, carved into the permafrost of a mountain in the remote Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole, 120-meter tunnel, 130m above current sea level
  • Preserve 3 million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet's crops