On Friday, a slew of alarming headlines emerged regarding the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Water had apparently breached this “fail-safe” trove of the planet’s seeds that is supposed to ...

Seed dormancy allows plants to hedge their bets on the future; the Global Seed Vault extends this state for decades or longer. While varieties in the field may become extinct, their banked seeds ...

The first withdrawal from the vault was made in October 2015. 38,073 seed samples were taken out and sent to Morocco and Lebanon, where they will be planted in an attempt to restore ancient crops ...

Built deep into the interior of a remote arctic island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago quietly lies what the press has dubbed the "Doomsday Vault". First opened in February 2007 and run by the ...

The Iowa bank packed up the duplicate seed, and Doane was in Svalbard to watch it be placed into the vault. Prospecta Press “I think a lot of people would say, ‘Wow, this is incredible that ...

Global Seed Vault becomes more important than ever as climate change threatens crops. When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind.

The Seed Vault is an underground facility, opened in 2008, that houses more than 930,000 samples of seeds from around the world. It serves as a global backup for individual countries’ seed banks.

And on Wednesday, that seed vault got even more seeds — almost 50,000 new samples — to help preserve biodiversity. Those returning samples include the ones sent out in 2015 to replace a ...

Seed dormancy allows plants to hedge their bets on the future; the Global Seed Vault extends this state for decades or longer. While varieties in the field may become extinct, their banked seeds ...

The Global Seed Vault is owned by Norway and run by the Nordic Genetic Resources Centre. It was created under a U.N. treaty governing over 1,700 seed banks, ...

Svalbard Global Seed Vault evokes epic imagery and controversy because of the symbolic value of seeds. By Adriana Craciun, Boston University June 4, 2025 ...