The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to prevent climate disaster rather than plan for it ...

HALF-BURIED in an Arctic mountain, on an island between Norway and the North Pole, protrudes a giant metal wedge. And while ...

Deep in the Arctic permafrost, a special vault stores crop plant seeds from all over the world. But in addition to climate change, political conflicts are now threatening global crop biodiversity.

A SECLUDED island nestled in the Arctic Ocean is the home to a dangerous apex predator and a “Doomsday” vault. Boasting ...

SCIENTISTS have a new plan B for humanity, should life as we know it heads towards extinction. Hidden in a salt cave in ...

Microsoft is investing in apocalypse-proofing the world’s code Microsoft's GitHub plans to store code from open-source projects in Svalbard, near the Global Seed Vault, and other locations ...

Not even the Svalbard global seed vault is out of the reach of climate change’s effects. A biological sample repository already exists in the form of the Svalbard global seed vault, located in a ...

There are about 270 polar bears on the 38,000 sq-km island. So dangerous are polar bear attacks that locals cannot venture ...

The proposed lunar vault would operate much like the existing global seed vault at Svalbard, Norway. Situated hundreds of ...

Watch as "Doomsday" seed vault opens » Eventually the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, as it is officially known, will hold as many as 4.5 million distinct samples of seeds -- or some 2 billion seeds ...

There are seed samples for every crop you can think of from all continents. From rice and wheat to maize and cowpea, it truly is the most diverse collection of seed samples on earth. In this ...