The Doomsday Vault

The future of humanity could lie within a large concrete room, hewn out of a mountain on a freezing island just 1000 kilometres from the North Pole. The facility is designed to hold around 2 million types of seed, representing all known varieties of the world’s crops. The Norwegian government is planning to create the seed bank next year to safeguard the world’s food supply against nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels and earthquakes