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

The vault is the backup collection for all of these seed banks, storing their duplicate seeds at no charge to them. Potatoes ...

Two scientists who helped create an international seed vault received the World Food Prize last week in Des Moines, spotlighting the importance of seed banks, including one in northeast Iowa. The Seed ...

Two scientists who helped establish an international seed vault received the World Food Prize Thursday night in Des Moines, ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - the biggest backup seed storage ... Stefan Schmitz, executive director of the Crop Trust, an international organization that safeguards the diversity of crops ...

Natalie Aird, seed bank inventory coordinator at Seed Savers Exchange, organizes packets in a facility at the organization's farm in Decorah, Iowa. Often described as the Nobel of food and ...

Longyearbyen, Svalbard — The Svalbard Global Seed Vault received yesterday a deposit of more than 30,000 new seed samples from 23 depositors across 21 countries, including seven international ...

including seven international genebanks have been deposited at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault yesterday to conserve crop diversity in the face of escalating climate change, conflict among others.

The entrance to the international gene bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) is pictured outside Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen, Norway COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - An Arctic seed vault on Norway's ...