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 ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources ...

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.

for permanent storage. The facility, a joint venture grouping oil giants Equinor of Norway, Anglo-Dutch Shell and TotalEnergies of France, is expected to bury its first CO2 deliveries in 2025.

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 ...