(Things that sound dirty, but aren’t.)
“Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food” in the Feb. 29, 2008 New York Times is about the Global Vault. The vault is a high tech, high security storage facility for all kinds of seeds from collections all over the world. The seeds are being stored as a safety net for maintaining biodiversity to mitigate the potential effects of global warming or some kind of large-scale disaster (natural, man-made or pest-induced).
Fascinating.
Fun fact: The world has 1,200 types of bananas. Wow, that’s a lot of bananas!