Today, we delve into a remarkable vault located in Norway, known as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. This highly secretive facility is known to only a select few around the globe. It is said to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under ...

Located in the arctic circle, The Global Seed Vault isn't simply just a large storage facility for seeds from around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Two-thirds of the ...

In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases and climate change. Today, seed banks ...

Nestled in the mountains of the world’s northernmost community, one building braces for doomsday, both in design and function. The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard — between continental Norway and ...

World Food Prize laureates Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (courtesy World Food Prize Foundation) Two scientists who led efforts to establish a storage vault holding ...

Microsoft is investing in apocalypse-proofing the world’s code Microsoft's GitHub plans to store code from open-source projects in Svalbard, near the Global Seed Vault, and other locations around the ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - the biggest backup seed storage facility in the world — received this week over 31,000 new seed samples from 23 countries, including Palestine and Sudan. The 119 boxes ...

Two-thirds of the world's food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...

Two-thirds of the world's food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...

Photographer Caroline Poiron tracks embryos of plant life from their origin on a farm in Hyderabad, India to the “doomsday” repository in Norway Established on Svalbard Island, Norway, about 700 miles ...