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

Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the ...

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

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

Over 14,000 new samples of food crop seeds are being added this week to a "doomsday" vault located on an island in Svalbard, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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