As concerns about rising global temperatures and food insecurity increase, there's still a silver lining. The New York Times reported that one of the world's most essential "doomsday" plant vaults ...

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 ...

Over 14,000 new samples of food crop seeds are being added this week to a "doomsday" vault located on an island in Svalbard, ...

Hidden beneath the countryside of Wakehurst in Sussex lies a facility often described as a doomsday vault. The label sounds ...

The Global Seed Vault offers a safety net in case of natural catastrophe, war, climate change, disease or manmade disasters — Jonathan NACKSTRAND A "doomsday vault" in the Arctic designed to safeguard ...

The two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can be used to rebuild much the world's food supply if catastrophe hits ― are this year’s winner of the ...

The two laureates were awarded for their work on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For fifteen years, a storage facility buried in a mountain on the ...

A bunker hidden in the Arctic might sound like somewhere a Bond villain would hide out – but the real–life 'Doomsday Vault' actually serves a very serious purpose. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, ...

COPENHAGEN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will receive more than 14,000 new samples on ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...