On a remote Arctic island, scientists have swung open the doors of the world’s largest so called doomsday vault and offered a ...

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 ...

A 3D digital record of the Taj Mahal, a copy of the Constitution, rare manuscripts, and data from ISRO's important missions are being preserved here for future generations.

The Millennium Seed Bank has more seeds than anywhere else but there are over 1,700 seed banks including the underground ...

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 ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN (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 Tuesday, a ...

Cary Fowler is the executive director of the Arctic Seed Vault, also known as the Doomsday Seed Vault, an internationally-organized effort to protect one of the planet’s greatest resources – the ...

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 ...