May 20 (UPI) -- The remote Arctic "doomsday" seed vault that houses some 800,000 vital crop seeds to be used in the event of a disaster suffered a water breach from melting permafrost due to soaring Arctic temperatures officials said Friday.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, more commonly known as the "Doomsday Vault," was build in 2008 in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsberge as a failsafe way to protect important crops in the event of a man-made or natural disaster. An unexpected heat wave in the Arctic triggered melting of snow and ice.