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An explosion in an underground electrical vault has caused evacuations at four downtown Los Angeles buildings. No injuries have been reported.
The construction began last summer, stirring up dust that wafted down this desert valley and into a small community of off-the-grid homes.
“Fallout 3,” out now for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, is a deliciously mutated role-playing game, fitting given the game's post-apocalyptic fiction.
Leszek Blanik of Poland won a tiebreaker over France's Thomas Bouhail in men's vault at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday night.
Norway opened a frozen "doomsday" vault Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain where millions of seeds will be stored to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out food crops around the globe.
A "doomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Refrigeration units on Friday begin cooling a new doomsday vault dug into an already frigid Arctic mountainside to protect the world's seeds in case of a global catastrophe.
It sounds like something from a science fiction film — a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island ready to serve as a Noah's Ark for seeds in case of a global catastrophe.
'Birthers' take eligibility battle to next levelWhere's the Birth Certificate? More than 400,000 petitioners want transparency and accountability, but instead, they're told it's on the internet. The American people and lawyers are asking for a certified long form birth certificate.
Boston Tourist Tumbles Into Unknown Crypt Secret vaults beneath Boston's streets have been the stuff of fiction in recent years, but a woman strolling through the Granary cemetery last month made a startling real-life discovery when she tumbled into a buried chamber.
Lillo Brancato 'lost in drugs,' says boss of 'Vault' sex club "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato goes on trial for a cop killing Monday, and sex-club impresario Anthony Marini won't be on the witness list.
Buried Seed Vault Opens in Arctic - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times BlogAfter several years of planning and digging, the world has its first secure, deep-frozen repository for backup supplies of seeds from hundreds of thousands of plant varieties that underpin agriculture.
'Doomsday' seed vault to open in Norway 'A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world is scheduled to open this week in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean."
"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the ArcticThe US already has a Plant Genetic Resources Preservation Program in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)database so it is interesting that the Gates funding is being paired with private sector funding for this project.
Frozen vault saves crops for mankind Engineers last week finished work on one of the world's most ambitious conservation projects: a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside in the archipelago of Svalbard, a few hundred miles from the North Pole.
Norway building a 'Doomsday' seed bankNorway is building a vault inside a mountiain to hold a seed bank of every crop in the world.
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