The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - the biggest backup seed storage facility in the world — received this week over 31,000 new seed samples from 23 countries, including Palestine and Sudan.

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

and a loss in any seed bank around the world is a loss for all of us,” said Fowler, part of the U.S. Special Envoy for Global ...

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

“In a world of changes, we are all in this together ... Roughly 1,700 ‘genebanks’ — which can include cold storage for seeds, greenhouses and tissue cultures — work at the local ...