As Earth enters an age of rapid ecological change, a quiet revolution is taking place in freezers chilled to -80°C.

Microbiota Vault Initiative preserves crucial microbes from humans, animals, and environments to prevent future health crises ...

Since 2008, 1.3 million seed varieties from 128 countries have been deposited in the global seed vault, located in Norway's ...

Researchers warn that accelerating human-driven loss of microbial diversity threatens both planetary and human health. The ...

The Global Seed Vault in the Norwegian Arctic, which opened in 2008, is closed to the public and shrouded in mystery, the subject of numerous internet doomsday conspiracy theories.

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 custodian of the ...

Global Seed Vault: the Arctic’s doomsday depository that could save plant life from climate change. Tucked away inside a mountain in the Arctic lies humanity's chance for salvation from ...

A 'doomsday' Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island is set to receive its most diverse batch of seed donations yet as efforts to secure the world's food supplies ramp up amid rising ...

At a latitude of 78 degrees north lies the northernmost city in the world. It is an odd place. Way above the Arctic Circle—a mere 814 miles from the North Pole—Longyearbyen, in Norway’s ...

Two men who led the charge in creating the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which protects and preserves millions of seeds, will be honored as the 2024 World Food Prize laureates.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built deep inside a mountain on a Norwegian island in the Arctic Circle, holds 1.25 million seed samples from nearly every country in the world.

COPENHAGEN (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 conflict ...