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The main objective of the Arctic Circle Seed Vault is to preserve genetic diversity in agriculture. In a world where climate ...

Sudan, a country bordering Egypt in northeast Africa has decided to send crop samples to the "doomsday" vault in a remote ...

Fourteen thousand seeds from 21 countries are heading to the Arctic this week, bound for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a ...

A “DOOMSDAY vault” has received a new delivery of crop seeds to preserve forever if the Earth is wiped out by a nuclear war.

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located in a remote Norwegian Arctic island, will soon accommodate over 14,000 new seed samples. This vital repository serves as a safeguard for global food crop ...