Climate change in the Arctic is happening so quickly that the Norwegian Government has been forced to spend $17 million to fix a subterranean vault that is preserving the world's seeds.
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| The entrance to the Global Seed Vault sits on the Arctic tundra on the archipelago of Svalbard. |
The Global Seed Vault, better known as the Doomsday Vault, stores seeds from 40 per cent of plant species from around the world on the remote Svalbard archipelago, a little more than 1,000 kilometres from the North Pole.
Australia has about 45,000 varieties crucial to the grain and livestock industries in the vault.
Read the ABC News story by Steven Schubert - “Doomsday Vault needs to plug leak caused by climate change.”
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