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 ...

The entrance to the international gene bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) is pictured outside Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen, Norway COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - An Arctic seed vault on Norway's ...

OSLO (Reuters) - A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Monday, including one from the first ...

A new round of plant varieties is headed to the Arctic seed vault, where the genes of essential crops are protected in underground chambers. Reading time 2 minutes A remote seed vault on the Arctic ...

"All seeds are sacred, these seeds are connected to 10,000 years of human relationship to the land," says Owen Taylor, co-founder of Philadelphia-based Truelove Seeds, who sells vegetable, herb and ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway received its 1 millionth seed variety on Tuesday. The “doomsday vault” was designed to be a storage facility to protect crop seeds donated by almost every ...