"Arctic seed vault opens doors for 100 million seeds" physorg.com (February 26, 2008)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is presented as dealing with "rapidly diminishing biodiversity," but it sounds like a pretty good idea. I rather hope they've got some dutch elm seeds in there: that species is dying out, thanks to a bug-born disease.
The building isn't just a silo: the architects paid attention to aesthetics as well as practical concerns.
The physorg.com article is a fairly detailed writeup.
Depending on the species, the seeds should last thousands to tens of thousands of years.
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