LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY — High above the icy fjord ... the $6-million vault deep inside the mountain. National seed banks around the world might be devastated by natural disasters or raided ...

There they will lay in in sturdy black ... Svalbard Seed Bank The Svalbard seed bank is nine years old, and is located at the ends of the Earth, in Svalbard, an island in Norway far above the ...

The Global Seed Vault, nestled in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, is deemed one of the world's safest places and the most secure seed bank ... are stored under ‘black-box’ conditions ...

A huge underground bunker in a frozen wasteland sounds like the backdrop to a spy thriller but that is exactly what can be found halfway between Norway ... of the world's seed crops to protect ...

The vault contains 642 million seeds from almost every country in the world, but has the capacity for 2.5 billion. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is buried on an island off of Norway's northern coast.

Svalbard is often described as a remote, frozen wasteland. For conspiracy theorists, early visits to the Global Seed Vault by billionaires such as Bill Gates and George Soros, and representatives from ...

Rice is one of the world's most important crops Norway is planning to build a "doomsday vault" inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world's crops.

Natalie Aird, seed bank inventory coordinator at Seed Savers Exchange, organizes packets in a facility at the organization's farm in Decorah, Iowa. Often described as the Nobel of food and ...

A bunker built to withstand the world's ... Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway was built to look after the future of mankind. But as the species faces difficulty so does the bank, and the ...

By Amelia Nierenberg The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in the far reaches of northern Norway, is meant to be humanity’s last resort. Imagine it as the world ... Those banks are a bit like ...

You can get a commercial flight to the northernmost town in the world. But that doesn’t mean it’s always simple to get to Longyearbyen, Norway ... all black and white and gray, we make ...

The World Food Prize went to Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler, who helped start the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway in 2008. It’s a backup for more than 100 seed banks around the world ...