The Global Seed Vault has been politically controversial ... But storing seeds in a dormant state actually mirrors plants' own survival strategy. Dormancy is the mysterious plant behavior that ...
A vault set deep into the snowy mountains of Norway is the world’s safety net, yet it can only be visited six times per year. The Global Seed Vault, nestled in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway ...
The New York Times reported that one of the world's most essential "doomsday" plant vaults received a record-breaking number of new seeds. This is one of the vault's largest one-time additions ...