Agriculture is the basis of human civilization. The Svalbard Seed Vault was built to preserve that foundation from wars, disaster, and the looming threat of climate change. How was it built? What's ...

The vault is designed to prolong their dormancy at zero degrees Fahrenheit (-18 degrees Celsius) in three ice-covered caverns inside a sandstone mountain. The air is so cold inside that when I entered ...

The vault and its sister seed banks don’t diminish cultivation of seeds grown by farmers in fields. The two methods complement one another, and seed depositors retain ownership of their seeds.

It hosts the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure facility preserving seeds from around the world. The island's main settlement, Longyearbyen, is one of the world's northernmost inhabited areas.

In a surprising and heartwarming twist, a small premixed herb product from Malaysia called Herbaratus has earned a spot in the vault. The product’s founder, a Malaysian man who started the business ...

Tucked up 1,300 km beyond the Arctic Circle lies the world's largest secure seed storage, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which first opened in 2008. This sits proudly in a massive former coal mine ...

If I click on "Global Events" in the event page, then accidentally click on the map, it will stop the retrieval process and the bottom table diappears, all selections are gone. Is it possible to ...

Contributions of seeds from Chad and Nigeria are among 30,000 specimens recently transported to Norway and deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It is the latest collection of seeds from the ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway supports them all. It is the world’s most famous backup site for seeds that are more precious than data.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has a practical mission – protecting seeds as a backup for seed banks around the world – but inspires strong cultural, political and artistic reactions.

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway ...