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

Scientists are racing to protect the world’s seeds from natural disasters and war. But what happens when those disasters come ...

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 ...

Thousands of seeds from native African tree species and indigenous varieties of crops have been deposited in the cold, dry rock vaults of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the permafrost of northern ...

— -- A doomsday seed vault on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean opened Tuesday, creating a bank of more than 100 million seeds representing every major food crop on Earth. The ...

OSLO, Norway Two years after receiving its first deposits, a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository of crop ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adriana Craciun, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food ...