You don’t need to be worried about a lack of food on when doomsday (inevitably) happens. Norway announced on Monday that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault now contains more than one million types of seed, intended to protect crops and plants from devastation by natural and man-made disasters. /VCG Photo

The world’s largest repository, which is widely called the “Noah’s Ark” of plant genes, is located in a concrete bunker 10,000 meters deep inside a mountain. Built in 2008, it is ultimately expected to store the seeds of three million plants. /VCG Photo

The refrigerated units within the granary help keep the seeds at a constant temperature of -18ºC. “At these temperatures, seeds for important crops like wheat, barley and peas can last for up to 10,000 years,” said Cary Fowler, the executive director of the Rome-based Global Crop Diversity Trust, which has worked with the Nordic Gene Bank on the establishment of the vault. /VCG Photo

Norway plans to spend 12.7 million US dollars on upgrading the granary after a flood caused by melting permafrost put the vault in danger last year. /VCG Photo