The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway supports them all. It is the world's most famous backup site for seeds that are more ...

Seed banks are specialized facilities that store seeds to preserve genetic diversity for future generations. These vaults are ...

The Global Seed Vault is sometimes called the doomsday vault, as it is meant to store the Earth's genetic bounty in the event of a natural or human-made disaster that wipes out vital crops needed ...

Not even the Svalbard global seed vault is out of the reach of climate change’s effects. A biological sample repository already exists in the form of the Svalbard global seed vault, located in a ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault saw its largest number of new contributors in one day and now holds over 1.2 million seed varieties from 77 countries. Since 2008, the vault has been stockpiling ...

Yes, this place actually exists. It’s called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – and it might just be the world’s most important backup drive. So, what is it, exactly? Let’s take a closer ...

The sealed vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and ...

The destruction caused by climate change and conflicts has made it more urgent for us to preserve valuable seeds for our survival in an unpredictable world.

On the remote island of Shearwater, between Australia and Antarctica, stands a state-of-the-art research centre and seed vault, containing specimens of all of the world’s plant species should ...