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

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

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

The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, is one of humanity's greatest achievements, and may very well one day be our salvation. Amidst the wars and always-escalating geopolitics of the 20th and ...

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 vault is the backup collection for all of these seed banks, storing their duplicate seeds at no charge to them. In fact, however, the archipelago of Svalbard has daily flights to other Norwegian ...

Farmers will need crop diversity if plants are going to adapt to the changing climate, say World Food Prize winners who built ...

A Brit who regularly travels the world shared a review of his stay in the "strangest place on Earth" - and seems quite mind-blown by the trip.

By Amelia Nierenberg The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in the far reaches of northern Norway, is meant to be humanity’s last resort. Imagine it as the world’s doomsday garden shed: a secure ...