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 ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such ...
Today, we delve into a remarkable vault located in Norway, known as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. This highly secretive facility is known to only a select few around the globe. It is said to be ...
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 ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has duplicates of over 1 million seed varieties from around the world. The vault's coordinator said it's part of a global gene bank — but it's not a "doomsday vault." ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault turned one on Feb. 26, an anniversary it celebrated by receiving 90,000 new samples, or four tons, of seeds. Those are in addition to the more than 400,000 unique seed ...
Every year, it becomes clearer and clearer that climate change is extremely likely to affect our food supply; crops may not grow as well in certain areas as they did in the past, wildfires are ...
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 ...