When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind. But just 800 miles from the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault holds emergency stockpiles of most of the world's ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Two-thirds of the ...
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The Norwegian “Doomsday Vault” 130 meters inside a Svalbard mountain that holds backup of every food crop on Earth
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault sits 130 meters inside a sandstone mountain on Spitsbergen ...
Reports spread over the weekend that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault had “flooded,” succumbing to the same force it was designed to protect the world’s food supply from: global warming. The Seed Vault ...
Humanity’s last hope to feed our future may lie dormant in a once-abandoned Arctic coal mine on a remote island in Norway. The “doomsday seed vault,” as it’s colloquially known, was built a decade ago ...
Deep beneath an icy Norwegian mountain above the Arctic Circle lies the largest concentration of agricultural diversity on Earth. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the "Doomsday" vault or ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Adrian Higgins, The Washington Post The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is not exactly at the North Pole, but it’s nearer to it than just about anywhere else, ...
In the seven years since the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened, hundreds of thousands of seed samples have gone into its icy tombs. And not one has come out—until now. This week the International ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The 2,100-person town of Longyearbyen endures four months of perpetual darkness in the winter, followed by four months of sunlight in the summer.
The Cherokee Nation is the first US Tribe to deposit culturally important crop seeds in the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard Seeds from nine rare heirloom food crops, such as Cherokee White Eagle Corn, ...
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