26-02-2018 12:48 via theverge.com

Norway will spend $13 million to upgrade its doomsday seed vault

Norway will spend 100 million Norwegian Crowns ($12.7 million) to upgrade the doomsday seed vault it built ten years ago. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was constructed in an abandoned Arctic coal mine to store and safeguard the world’s crops and plants from global natural or man-made disaster. If nuclear war or global warming kills certain crops, governments willbe able to request seeds from the vault to restart their agricultural industries.
The Norwegian Government says the upgrades wi
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