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

A storage facility in Norway built to safeguard crop ... organizations that store their own hoards of seeds in locations around the world — that participated in the latest donation, said Asmund ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, providing long-term storage of duplicates of seeds from around the world conserved in genebanks ... in 21 countries were deposited in the vault in Norway's Svalbard ...

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

World's first CO2 storage service soon ready in Norway Norway is set to inaugurate Thursday the gateway to a massive undersea vault for carbon dioxide, a crucial step before opening what its ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - the biggest backup seed storage facility in the world — received this ... This support is made possible by Norway as part of the Biodiversity for Opportunities ...

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, farmers grew tens ...

Two scientists instrumental in the development of an international seed bank in Norway won this year’s World Food Prize in ...