Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin, two men who led the effort to create the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, will receive the 2024 World Food Prize. The vault opened in 2008 and now holds 1.25 million seed ...

Representatives from many countries and universities arrive in the Svalbard's global seed vault with new seeds, in Longyearbyen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As Cary Fowler and ...

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 ...

LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A 'doomsday' Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island is set to receive its most diverse batch of seed donations yet as efforts to secure the world's food supplies ...

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 ...