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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Two-thirds of the ...

Two-thirds of the world's food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...

In a remote location in the Arctic, a man-made facility is quietly safeguarding the future of global food security. This vault, built deep inside a mountain, is designed to withstand catastrophic ...

High above the Arctic Circle, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete entrance juts out of a mountainside like something from a science fiction novel. This remote facility, dubbed the ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - the biggest backup seed storage facility in the world — received this week over 31,000 new seed samples from 23 countries, including Palestine and Sudan. The 119 boxes ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, ...

Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than ...