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

Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 million samples in what is the world’s most secure stash of seeds. Far above the Arctic Circle ...

Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

To combat this issue, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors back in 2008, as the 'ultimate insurance policy for the world's food supply'. According to Crop Trust, the Seed Vault is in ...

CEO the The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry said. The vault is on Svalbard in the Arctic (Picture: Azzura Lalani/CIFOR-ICRAF/Cover Images) Seeds of the Baobab ...

The latest deposit includes vital crop varieties from around the world. "The seed vault is about our world's food security. It is fantastic to be here to receive new seeds to the Svalbard Global ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the world’s crop diversity on the Norwegian island of ...

COPENHAGEN - A “doomsday” vault storing food crop seeds from around the world on a remote Norwegian Arctic island is receiving more than 14,000 new samples, including Thai rice seeds ...

COPENHAGEN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will receive more than 14,000 new samples on ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, set deep inside a mountain to withstand disasters from nuclear war to global warming, was launched in 2008 as a backup for the world’s gene banks that store the ...