The storage of forest tree seeds in the vault is Nordic cooperation, involving Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway. At this stage, forest tree seeds from Norway and Finland will be ...

Using red maple trees as an example, Johnson said some years they will have 20% female flowers, the part that pollinates and creates seeds. In other years, the same tree might produce 60% female ...

A total of 120,000 seeds from 13 African tree species, including the baobab, Adansonia digitata and white acacia, Faidherbia albida, were deposited in the icy chambers.

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — Norway opened a frozen “doomsday” vault Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain where millions of seeds will be stored to safeguard against wars or natural disasters ...

Norway plans to have a roughly $12.7 million upgrade to its safety vault for global seed supplies.The underground facility stores seeds for food from across the world, and upgrades include ...

Cary Fowler, senior adviser to the Global Crop Diversity Trust, talks about a giant vault of millions of seeds stored away in an icy mountain in Norway. Fowler is the author of Seeds on Ice.

Norway plans to spend roughly $12.7 million to upgrade its “doomsday” seed vault, the world’s largest repository built to protect crops and plants from natural and man-made disasters.

The Svalbard vault, located about 800 miles from the North Pole, opened in 2008 and contains seeds from tens of thousands of varieties of essential food crops such as beans, wheat and rice. It's ...