Nestled in the mountains of the world’s northernmost community, one building braces for doomsday, both in design and function. The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard — between continental Norway and ...

The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

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 of ...

And now for something that may sound like the beginning of a fairy tale. Deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, between continental Norway and the North Pole, there's a ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is designed to safeguard more than 2 billion seeds in case of natural or manmade disaster. Located on a Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean near the village of ...

— -- A doomsday seed vault on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean opened Tuesday, creating a bank of more than 100 million seeds representing every major food crop on Earth. The ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adriana Craciun, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food ...