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- Snhetta-designed center may provide a rare look inside the worlds largest seed vault Fri, 8 Nov 19, 6:30amSnøhetta has unveiled preliminary designs for The Arc, a proposed visitor center for Arctic preservation storage on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, a remote island north of the Arctic Circle...
- 50,000 new seeds deposited in Arctic Circle's Svalbard Global Seed Vault Fri, 24 Feb 17, 1:53amNearly 10 years ago, a group of scientists got together to build the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle, to prepare for a world threatened by climate change, wars, and natural disasters...
- Syria withdraws seeds from Doomsday Vault as bombs disrupt crop research Tue, 20 Oct 15, 1:30amWhen you think of doomsday preppers, you probably think of folks with a basement full of canned food, hand-crank radios, and batteries. In Norway, though, the government has taken a different kind of doomsday precaution by...
- 10,000 New Seeds Added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to Safeguard Against Climate Change Fri, 17 Oct 14, 2:00amAs climate change becomes a very real global problem, scientists are stocking up the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The vault, which is stationed on a Norwegian island in the arctic, aims to protect the world’s crops in the...
- 10,000 New Seeds Added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault to Safeguard Against Climate Change Thu, 16 Oct 14, 4:00pmAs climate change becomes a very real global problem, scientists are stocking up the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a collection of crop seeds from around the world intended for what’s been nicknamed as “doomsday.” In...
- New Video of National Geographic Touring the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Sat, 12 Feb 11, 6:12amThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault is like a modern day Noah’s Ark – storing seeds rather than animals, but incredibly important in case of global catastrophe...