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

The Millennium Seed Bank has more seeds than anywhere else but there are over 1,700 seed banks including the underground ...

Where tourists map end and the the fences begin, lie places that aren't marketed, photographed, or casually stumbled into, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Amid the 872-day siege of Leningrad in the early 1940s, nine ...

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 ...

Twenty genebanks across the world deposited seed samples at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week, contributing 21,647 accessions to the world’s largest backup repository of crop diversity and ...

Instead of going to therapy, a widower escapes his trauma by fleeing to an island halfway between Antarctica and Tasmania, where he’s supposed to be taking care of a broken seed vault meant to protect ...

In Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Megan Clendenan spotlights the construction of Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which houses more than 580 million frozen seeds, ...

Longyearbyen, Norway, is the northernmost town in the world.ginger_polina_bublik/Shutterstock The world's northernmost town is Longyearbyen in the Norwegian ...

More than 150,000 people visited Svalbard as a whole in 2018, per the most recent data available. It is the host of the doomsday seed vault, which stores every known crop on the planet. The doomsday ...

This time of year, harvest is in full swing. For more than a century, one family-owned company has helped make the Treasure Valley a world leader in sweet corn seed. Crookham Company has been rooted ...