Global food security is serious business, and when you have water seeping into a doomsday facility built to shore up food supplies for the future, well, that's hardly ideal. But such breaches should ...

Fans of real-time space strategy game Stellaris may be familiar with a moment in the game when an elder alien civilization volunteers to “preserve” your in-game species by curating some of your adult ...

Norway plans to have a roughly $12.7 million upgrade to its safety vault for global seed supplies.The underground facility stores seeds for food from across the world, and upgrades include ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway ...

Nestled in the mountains of the world’s northernmost community, one building braces for doomsday, both in design and function. The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard — between continental Norway and ...

Norway plans to spend roughly $12.7 million to upgrade its “doomsday” seed vault, the world’s largest repository built to protect crops and plants from natural and man-made disasters. The Scandinavian ...

OSLO, Norway — Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop ...