Buried deep underground. Able to withstand a ‘bunker buster’ bomb. In a location carefully selected for maximum security. Equipped with state-of-the-art electronic monitoring devices. No, it’s not a ...

A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Monday, including one from the first organisation that ...

OSLO, Norway — Refrigeration units on Friday begin cooling a new doomsday vault dug into an already frigid Arctic mountainside to protect the world's seeds in case of a global catastrophe. Norway ...

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HELSINKI (AP) — Nearly 10 years after a "doomsday" seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world's largest ...

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — In the first withdrawal from a “doomsday” seed vault in the Arctic, thousands of seeds that were originally kept in war-stricken Syria have been safely delivered to Morocco and ...

Deep underground beneath the Sussex countryside in southern England, millions of seeds are kept frozen in a vault built to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Jutting out of the permafrost on a mountainside on Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard ...