There's a 'Doomsday Vault' in Norway where the doors only open six times a year, and it's there in case the world should end ...

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

COPENHAGEN (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 Tuesday, a ...

Over 14,000 new samples of food crop seeds are being added this week to a "doomsday" vault located on an island in Svalbard, Norway. These seeds are part of an effort launched in 2008 to back up ...

The idea of a doomsday vault hidden on a remote Arctic island might sound like something from the latest James Bond movie. But the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is very much real - and could one ...

Kim Hoe-jin, senior manager of the headquarters of the Seed Vault Center, on Feb. 19 looks at specimens at her facility, ...

Longyearbyen, Norway — Partner organizations from across the globe are gathering in Norway this week to deposit seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, with Sudan making its deposit amid the ...

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

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

Dubai, UAE – In an unprecedented journey across continents and time, Emirati seeds, collected and extensively studied at the ...

These seeds come from MyGeneBank and the National Rice Gene Bank, with collections dating back to 1977, according to MARDI's ...

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 ...