But the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is very much real - and could one day save Earth from disaster. Located on a mountainside on Spitsbergen, an island in the remote Norwegian archipelago of ...

On the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault serves as a secure storage facility for backup seeds of critical food crops from around the ...

TAINAN CITY, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) held the inauguration ceremony of the ...

With over 1.3 million seed samples from 6,200 plant species, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault stands as the last line of ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the world’s crop diversity on the Norwegian island of ...

Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 million samples in what is the world’s most secure stash of seeds. Far above the Arctic Circle, tucked away in ...

OSLO, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- A total of 14,000 seed samples from 21 gene banks are being deposited this week in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the Norwegian government announced on Wednesday.

For the first time, seeds from the UAE’s pioneering agricultural research have been enshrined in the permafrost of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago ... By preserving them in the Svalbard Global Seed ...

Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, belonging to Norway, is famous for being home to the Global Seed Vault ...

Seeds from 19 species of African trees have been added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. The trees were selected by the World Agroforestry Center for their value to communities across ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Svalbard opened in 2008 and now contains 1.25 million seed samples from nearly every country. Late last month, the latest delivery ...