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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Melting Arctic ice is revealing a hidden world of nitrogen-fixing bacteria beneath the surface. These microbes, not the usual cyanobacteria, enrich the ocean with nitrogen, fueling algae growth that ...
The world's northernmost town is Longyearbyen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The town is 800 miles from the North Pole and one of the most remote human settlements on Earth. Longyearbyen ...
GROWING OUR ARCTIC FLEET: President Donald J. Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum to authorize the construction of up to four Arctic Security Cutters (ASCs) abroad to address urgent national ...
The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than ...