Humanity is losing the genetic diversity that sustains life on Earth at a pace that should alarm every nation. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, about 75% of the world’s crop ...

BHPian robimahanta recently shared this with other enthusiasts:Ever since my trip to far-east Russia to see brown bears in ...

The Arctic World Archive stores humanity’s most valuable data, including manuscripts, artifacts, and digital files, in a ...

As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, you might find yourself wondering where you’d go if civilization suddenly ...

The Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to ...

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has ...

Sifting through the sands of long-forgotten 90s sample packs, has Daniel Lopatin struck some ghostly yet ecstatic gold?

Deep underground beneath the Sussex countryside in southern England, millions of seeds are kept frozen in a vault built to ...

A "shocking" Arctic blast – with temperatures more akin to mid-January than early November – is poised to overspread the eastern half of the U.S. starting around Nov. 8, sending tens of millions into ...

ABOUT 4,417 samples of Philippine rice seed were added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, a secure Arctic facility that will be tapped should the world need to start agriculture from scratch ...

Joscelyn Roberson has another world medal to add to her collection. Some new-found confidence, too. Roberson won a bronze medal on vault at the gymnastics world championships Friday, finishing behind ...