Seed banks are a clever way to make sure that thousands - sometimes millions - of fruit and vegetable varieties don’t go ...

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 ...

How do we make sure we can keep growing our most popular fruits and vegetables far into the future? Climate change has been affecting farms for years, with floods washing away crops ...

The Global Seed Vault, nestled in the Svalbard archipelago ... and permafrost making it an ideal location for underground cold storage. A temperature of -18C is required for the preservation ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on a mountainside in 2008, was designed as a storage facility to protect vital crop seeds against the worst cataclysms of nuclear war or disease and safeguard ...

Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault first opened in February 2008 The ... More than 70,000 crops will be added to frozen storage chambers buried deep within a mountain in the Arctic Circle.

How orchards are adapting to warmer winters 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 ...