This genebank, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, is located in northern Norway and ... zones around the world. For instance, after the civil war in Syria devastated a seed storage bank in Aleppo ...

This genebank, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, is located in northern Norway and is one of the ... from war-affected zones ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - the biggest backup seed storage facility in the world — received this ... This support is made possible by Norway as part of the Biodiversity for Opportunities ...

Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault first opened in February 2008 The vault storing the world's most precious ... 70,000 crops will be added to frozen storage chambers buried deep within a ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on a mountainside in 2008, was designed as a storage facility to protect ... halfway between Norway and the North Pole, and is only opened a few times a ...

The Global Seed Vault in Norway was built to shelter millions of crops from any potential natural or man-made disaster. More from News The Global Seed Vault in Norway was built to shelter millions ...

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 ...

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 ...

for permanent storage. The facility, a joint venture grouping oil giants Equinor of Norway, Anglo-Dutch Shell and TotalEnergies of France, is expected to bury its first CO2 deliveries in 2025.