At present, almost 2.5 billion seeds belonging to 40,000 distinct plant species are present in the facility.
Scientists are racing to protect the world’s seeds from natural disasters and war. But what happens when those disasters come ...
Deep inside the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete wedge in the permafrost holds a backup copy of the world’s food supply. Seed vaults like this are often framed as props in an apocalypse ...
MANILA, Philippines – The government plans to deposit additional rice seed samples in “doomsday vaults” here and abroad in a ...
A "doomsday vault" nestled deep in the Arctic received 60,000 new seed samples on Tuesday, including Prince Charles' cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the world's agricultural ...
The Millennium Seed Bank has more seeds than anywhere else but there are over 1,700 seed banks including the underground ...