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

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Svalbard opened in 2008 and now contains 1.25 million seed samples ...

Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the ...

A “DOOMSDAY vault” has received a new delivery of crop seeds to preserve forever if the Earth is wiped out by a nuclear war.

At least 12,000 seed samples from 19 genebanks have been deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, safeguarding vital crop ...

Sudan, a country bordering Egypt in northeast Africa has decided to send crop samples to the "doomsday" vault in a remote ...

Partner organizations from across the globe are gathering in Norway this week to deposit seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed ...

Malaysia has successfully deposited heritage seeds and traditional varieties of plants at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault ...

The main objective of the Arctic Circle Seed Vault is to preserve genetic diversity in agriculture. In a world where climate ...

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 ...