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What it's like inside the doomsday vault that stores every known crop on the planet

Nov 24, 2016, 20:50 IST
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We've long imagined scenarios in which, because of disaster, climate change, or nuclear war, life as we know it comes to an end, with parts of the earth rendered inhospitable with widespread environmental devastation.

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Hidden approximately 400 feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is designed to come to our rescue if that happens.

Snow blows off the Svalbard Global Seed Vault before being inaugurated at sunrise, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. The &quotdoomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.AP Photo/John McConnico

It stores valuable seeds from crops all over the world, and recently, because of the Syrian civil war, it came to humanity's aid for the first time. The vault is not open to the public, but you can see what it's like below:

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