Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault first opened in February 2008 ... frozen storage chambers buried deep within a mountain in the Arctic Circle. Cereal staples, unusual crops like the Estonian ...

Taller Arctic plants will trap more snow around them ... cover everything from plant height and leaf area to wood density, seed size, leaf chemistry, and more. Those researchers who initiated ...

What is Svalbard Global Seed Vault It all began back in 1984 when the Nordic Gene Bank began storing backup Nordic plants in an abandoned ... on an island above the Arctic Circle between Norway ...

Some theories suggest that this “Arctic greening” will help counteract climate change. The idea is that since plants take up carbon dioxide as they grow, rising temperatures will mean Arctic ...

OSLO (Reuters) - A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history, managers said. Set up on ...

Tucked up 1,300 km beyond the Arctic Circle lies the world's ... back up their collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.” “Farmers, plant breeders, scientists and we as consumers ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect a rare Arctic plant called the Alaskan glacier buttercup under the Endangered ...