Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors on February 26, 2008 to the world.
This ‘Doomsday Vault’ is part of an effort to protect the planet’s diminishing biodiversity.
The facility was dug deep into the frozen rock of an Arctic mountain on Spitsbergen, one of 3 Arpichelago Islands in Norway. Any seeds stored here will be secure [...]

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Russia’s Arctic neighbours saw the exploit as a blatant land grab, an attempt to pre-empt any new agreement on sharing the undersea resources among the littoral powers. They have already begun moves to stake their claims: Norway and Denmark are carrying out surveys and the US is organising an expedition ostensibly “in search of hydrothermal [...]

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Norway’s military: Russian bombers neared NATO summit on unusual …
The Canadian Press - 8 hours ago
Russia has routinely sent up bomber flights from its northern bases in recent months in what is broadly seen as a demonstration that its military is again …
Norway: Russian bombers neared NATO summit on unusual practice run Jerusalem Post
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Norway’s military has felt it necessary to dispatch fighter jets 29 times so far this year, to monitor Russian military flights offshore. Now it’s emerged that at least one of the Russian aircraft was equipped with a cruise missile.
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OSLO, Norway: Norwegian and British fighters scrambled Thursday to intercept eight Russian bombers that neared the Nordic country’s territory in the latest show of air power by the Kremlin, defense officials said.
The Russian Tupolev 95 strategic bombers rounded Norway’s northern tip over the Barents Sea and flew south over the North Atlantic before turning back, [...]

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