As concerns about rising global temperatures and food insecurity increase, there's still a silver lining. The New York Times reported that one of the world's most essential "doomsday" plant vaults ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such ...

Norway on Saturday said it would boost protection of a seed storage vault designed to protect the world’s crops from disaster, after soaring temperatures caused water to leak into its entrance.

Hidden beneath the countryside of Wakehurst in Sussex lies a facility often described as a doomsday vault. The label sounds dramatic, yet its purpose is practical and urgent. Scientists working with ...

The Global Seed Vault offers a safety net in case of natural catastrophe, war, climate change, disease or manmade disasters — Jonathan NACKSTRAND A "doomsday vault" in the Arctic designed to safeguard ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can be used to rebuild much the world's food supply if catastrophe hits ― are this year’s winner of the ...

The two laureates were awarded for their work on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For fifteen years, a storage facility buried in a mountain on the ...

COPENHAGEN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will receive more than 14,000 new samples on ...

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 ...