High above the Arctic Circle, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete entrance juts out of a mountainside like something from a science fiction novel. This remote facility, dubbed the ...

How do we make sure we can keep growing our most popular fruits and vegetables far into the future? Climate change has been affecting farms for years, with floods washing away crops, unpredictable ...

Representatives from many countries and universities arrive in the Svalbard's global seed vault with new seeds, in Longyearbyen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Oct 23 (Reuters) - An Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island has received new samples from the largest number of depositors since 2020, reflecting fear about the threat of ...

Whether it's for preserving the world's precious seeds or safeguarding ancient manuscripts, doomsday vaults are fascinating places tucked away around the globe. Imagine having a secret vault filled ...

Humanity is losing the genetic diversity that sustains life on Earth at a pace that should alarm every nation. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, about 75% of the world’s crop ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will receive more than 14,000 new samples on Tuesday, a ...