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 ...

A safe haven to preserve samples of biodiversity from climate change, habitat loss, natural disaster, and other threats is recognized as a worthwhile endeavor. Everyone knows good backup practice ...

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 of ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault sits 130 meters inside a sandstone mountain on Spitsbergen Island, 1,300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. Opened in 2008, it’s designed to function as the ultimate ...

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. The 119 boxes ...

In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases and climate change. Today, seed banks ...

Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than ...

You can get a commercial flight to the northernmost town in the world. But that doesn’t mean it’s always simple to get to Longyearbyen, Norway, a coal mining settlement in the Arctic Circle. On my ...

In Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Megan Clendenan spotlights the construction of Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which houses more than 580 million frozen seeds, ...

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 of ...