About 1,000 kilometres south of the North Pole lies Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago. Home to roughly 2,600 people, it also has another, larger, more famous population: that of 1,057,151 seeds ...

New, non-native plant species are constantly being found in Svalbard, and researchers are working to ascertain what threat these species pose to the native plants. So far, the Arctic has managed ...

Non-native, invasive species are among the world’s biggest environmental problems. The Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard has been unaffected – up until now.

The first North American native tribe to deposit seeds in the Svalbard "Doomsday Vault" is the Cherokee Nation.; The remote Svalbard Vault in Norway acts as a nature preserve and military resource ...

Tuesday marks a milestone for indigenous farming. A collection of Cherokee traditional seeds has reached the Arctic Circle to be preserved in the world biggest seed bank, after a 4,147 miles ...

No Native American tribe has ever received an invitation to store its traditional heirloom seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The seed vault, commonly known as the “doomsday vault ...

The community of Longyearbyen is a key port in Norway’s Svalbard islands with a fast-growing tourism industry, but it attracts few permanent residents. In Longyearbyen, there are no indigenous ...

On Feb. 25, the World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF) deposited seeds representing tree species of special value to communities across Africa in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.