A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will ...

At least 12,000 seed samples from 19 genebanks have been deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, safeguarding vital crop ...

Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such ...

File photo taken on June 19, 2024 shows the entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway. A total of 14 ...

A “DOOMSDAY vault” has received a new delivery of crop seeds to preserve forever if the Earth is wiped out by a nuclear war.

Partner organizations from across the globe are gathering in Norway this week to deposit seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed ...

Science news highlights include NASA's SPHEREx mission to explore the Big Bang aftermath, SpaceX's plan to deploy Starlink ...

Sudan, a country bordering Egypt in northeast Africa has decided to send crop samples to the "doomsday" vault in a remote ...

Fourteen thousand seeds from 21 countries are heading to the Arctic this week, bound for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a ...

On Feb. 25, the World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF) deposited seeds representing tree species of special value to ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, set deep inside a mountain to withstand disasters from nuclear war to global warming, was launched in 2008 as a backup for the world's gene banks that store the ...