Located on a mountainside on Spitsbergen, an island in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the vault houses 'spare ...

Located on a mountainside on Spitsbergen, an island in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the vault houses 'spare ...

NASA is set to launch SPHEREx to examine post-Big Bang events, search for water in the Milky Way, and a satellite to locate ...

The "Apocalypse Vault', the global seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, ...

On Feb. 25, the World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF) deposited seeds representing tree species of special value to ...

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, often referred to as the “doomsday” vault, has recently received over 14,000 new seed samples ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway will receive 14,022 new seed samples on Tuesday. Built in 2008, the vault safeguards ...

Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the ...

COPENHAGEN: As many as 14,000 new samples have been added have been added to doomsday vault storing food crop seeds from ...

Recent science updates include evidence of ancient Martian beaches, NASA's SPHEREx telescope mission, Starlink's airspace ...

Fourteen thousand seeds from 21 countries are heading to the Arctic this week, bound for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a ...