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 ...
Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and ...
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 ...
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 Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost—has accepted ...
Tian Li receives funding from the European Commission. Jonathan Bamber receives funding from the UK Natural Environment and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils, the European Commission ...
COAT's weather stations, even those located far beyond today's forest distribution on the Varanger Peninsula (green areas on the map), have experienced temperatures above the 10-degree threshold ...
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 ...
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 ...