Norway is giving its ‘doomsday’ seed vault a £9 million upgrade
The country will spend around £9.1 million on updating the seed bank, which is stationed in a remote arctic archipelago.
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which holds around 900,000 seed samples in case of a doomsday scenario, is getting a £9 million refurbishment.
Norway’s government announced the start-up grant would contribute to the construction of a new concrete access tunnel, and a service building for emergency power and refrigerating units.
The seed vault, which turns ten years old this month, is built into a mountain at Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago midway between the mainland and the North Pole.
