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

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

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

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 ...

In 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was inaugurated on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen. It is intended to be a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity. More than 100 metres below ...

The Seeding The Future Foundation and the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) are proud to announce that submissions are ...

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