Scientists are racing to protect the world’s seeds from natural disasters and war. But what happens when those disasters come ...
On a remote Arctic island, scientists have swung open the doors of the world’s largest so called doomsday vault and offered a ...
At present, almost 2.5 billion seeds belonging to 40,000 distinct plant species are present in the facility.
The contents of a so-called 'doomsday box' has been revealed 25 years since its creation and what's inside may just surprise ...
Should we be worried about the future of food production, especially when climate change, threats to environmental ecosystems, and future overpopulation prediction models give us cause for concern?
Cary Fowler is the executive director of the Arctic Seed Vault, also known as the Doomsday Seed Vault, an internationally-organized effort to protect one of the planet’s greatest resources – the ...
(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 ...
The Millennium Seed Bank has more seeds than anywhere else but there are over 1,700 seed banks including the underground ...