in the remote Svalbard islands between Norway and the North Pole. Building began last year, and the vault is scheduled to open officially Tuesday. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, as it is ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway has recently received a significant ... its exposure to external conditions. This limited access helps ensure the long-term preservation of the seeds ...

New Delhi, Feb 26 (ANI): Norway will spend $12.7 million to upgrade its 'Doomsday' seed vault that is situated at an abandoned Arctic coal mine to store and safeguard the world's crops during the ...

Dug deep into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, the “doomsday” vault is designed by Norway to protect the world’s seeds from global catastrophe. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a backup to ...

Should disaster strike - whether that's by war, an accident, or a natural disaster - the Seed Vault could provide survivors with access to every ... on an island off of Norway's northern coast.

Civilizations crumble, infrastructure collapses…and yet, far in the icy north of Norway, deep beneath a ... It’s called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – and it might just be the world ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault ... Dubbed the “doomsday vault”, the facility lies on the island of Spitsbergen in the archipelago of Svalbard, halfway between Norway and the North Pole ...

The Global Seed Vault is sometimes called the doomsday vault, as it is meant to store the Earth's genetic bounty in the event of a natural or human-made disaster that wipes out vital crops needed ...

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (CNN) -- A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world took delivery of its first shipment Tuesday. Dubbed the "Doomsday Vault," the seed bank on a ...