DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin began thinking about ways to prevent starvation and protect the world's food supply, they came up with what Fowler called “the craziest idea ...
On a remote Arctic island, scientists have swung open the doors of the world’s largest so called doomsday vault and offered a ...
Deep beneath an icy Norwegian mountain, above the Arctic Circle, lies the largest concentration of agricultural diversity on Earth. The Svelbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the "Doomsday" vault ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has duplicates of over 1 million seed varieties from around the world. The vault's coordinator said it's part of a global gene bank — but it's not a "doomsday vault." ...
MEN INSTRUMENTAL IN CREATING A GLOBAL SEED VAULT TO SAFEGUARD THE WORLD’S AGRICULTURAL DIVERSITY WILL BE HONORED AS THE 2024 WORLD FOOD PRIZE LAUREATES. THAT PRIZE, AWARDED IN IOWA, GOES TO DOCTORS ...
Nestled in the mountains of the world’s northernmost community, one building braces for doomsday, both in design and function. The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard — between continental Norway and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Two-thirds of the ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As Cary Fowler and ...