On a remote Arctic island, scientists have swung open the doors of the world’s largest so called doomsday vault and offered a ...

Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway ...

Deep inside the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete wedge in the permafrost holds a backup copy of the world’s food supply. Seed vaults like this are often framed as props in an apocalypse ...

The two laureates were awarded for their work on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For fifteen years, a storage facility buried in a mountain on the ...

Seeds from 19 species of African trees have been added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. The trees were selected by the World Agroforestry Center for their value to communities across ...

Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin OBE (U.K. and Canada) and Dr. Cary Fowler (U.S.) will share the $500,000 award for their work to preserve the world’s heritage of seeds ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? Through the ages, human survival has depended on our ability to cultivate and preserve plant diversity. By Cary Fowler Cary Fowler is an agriculturalist and a founder ...

Two-thirds of the world's food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...