Doomsday Seed Vault has more than 740,000 samples

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 19:30 in Earth & Climate

This week, the Doomsday Seed Vault in Norway is scheduled to receive nearly 25,000 samples of seeds from around the world. With these additions the now four-year-old vault would house more than 740,000 samples in an Arctic mountain on the Svaldbard archipelago.

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