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 custodian of the facility ...

Permafrost and thick rock ensure seed samples remain frozen even without power. The vault aims to secure millions of seeds representing every important crop variety available in the world today.

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

Permafrost and thick rock ensure seed samples remain frozen even without power. The vault aims to secure millions of seeds representing every important crop variety available in the world today.

Hidden in Norway’s Arctic, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores 1.3M seed varieties. This underground fortress protects ...

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

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

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, tucked away in the permafrost, this ...

Protected by permafrost, the vault has received samples from across the world, and played a leading role between 2015 and 2019 in rebuilding seed collections damaged during the war in Syria.