Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway holds millions of seeds from thousands of species of agricultural plants, but this ...

Studies suggest that plant species are going extinct at approximately 500 times the natural or background rate of extinction.

An Arctic seed vault on Norway’s Spitsbergen island has received new samples from the largest number of depositors since 2020 ...

For conspiracy theorists, early visits to the Global Seed Vault by billionaires such as Bill Gates and George Soros, and representatives from Google and Monsanto, signaled that the vault had a secret ...

The popular "Yellowstone" TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state's history: its ...

THE Genebank at the World Vegetable Centre in Arusha has just deposited more than 100 accessions of vegetables and other crops at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Maarten van Zonneveld, head of genetic ...

Fears about climate change and global conflict eradicating plant species and changing the face of the planet have prompted environmentalists and researchers to send 30,000 new seed samples to a ...

Oct 25 – Depositors from 21 countries have added over 30,000 new seed samples to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway,... WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on ...

Here are some secretive and highly restricted locations worldwide that are completely off-limits or extremely difficult for the public to access.