'Doomsday' seed vault undergoes makeover as Arctic temperatures rise
The underground vault – that has also been called Noah's Ark for seeds – houses and protects the world's crops for a worst-case scenario, that is doomsday.
Mar 02, 2018, 12:09 PM ISTMelting permafrost floods Arctic's doomsday global seed vault entrance!
The Global Seed Vault, opened in 2008, is a concrete bunker, 100 hundred metres deep inside a mountain. The refrigerated unit was designed to be a secure place to store seeds from many of Earth's 3 million known plant species.
May 20, 2017, 13:47 PM IST