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

Representatives from many countries and universities arrive in the Svalbard's global seed vault with new seeds, in Longyearbyen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from ...

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

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 ...

A "doomsday vault" nestled deep in the Arctic received 60,000 new seed samples on Tuesday, including Prince Charles' cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the world's agricultural ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) – Chick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is not exactly at the North Pole, but it's nearer to it than just about anywhere else, and well inside the Arctic Circle on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. This ...

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?

(THE CONVERSATION) 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, ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will receive more than 14,000 new samples on Tuesday, a ...