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 ...

An Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island has received new samples from the largest number of depositors since 2020, reflecting fear about the threat of conflict and climate change to ...

High on a wind-blasted Arctic mountain, a stark concrete doorway leads to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, external, a store to ensure the survival of the world's most precious plants.

OSLO (Reuters) – A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world’s crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Monday, including one from the ...

The vault, which holds over 1.1 million seed samples of nearly 6,000 plant species from 89 seed banks globally, also serves as a backup for plant breeders to develop new crop varieties.

On a remote Arctic island, there's an underground vault filled with seeds. Now, for the first time, scientists are about to retrieve some of those seeds to replace a collection trapped in Syria.

The world's largest seed collection is being developed under the permafrost on the Arctic Sea island of Spitzbergen. The tens of thousands of varieties of wheat, corn and beans stored there could ...

Global Seed Vault: the Arctic’s doomsday depository that could save plant life from climate change. Tucked away inside a mountain in the Arctic lies humanity's chance for salvation from ...

Many Arctic plant species have readily adjusted to big climate changes, repeatedly recolonizing the rugged islands of Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago through 20,000 years of warm and coo… ...

The gloomy Arctic seed bank that's key to future crops. Published. 12 January 2016. comments. 8 Comments. ... The seeds are derived from plants cultivated in some of the first examples of farming, ...