Whether it's for preserving the world's precious seeds or safeguarding ancient manuscripts, doomsday vaults are fascinating ...

A "doomsday vault" nestled deep in the Arctic received 60,000 new seed samples on Tuesday, including Prince Charles' cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the world's agricultural ...

We often think about threats to our lives as wars, economic crashes, or extreme weather, but a silent and possible danger looms larger, which could be, losing the plants that feed us. What happens if ...

Cary Fowler is the executive director of the Arctic Seed Vault, also known as the Doomsday Seed Vault, an internationally-organized effort to protect one of the planet’s greatest resources – the ...

Should we be worried about the future of food production, especially when climate change, threats to environmental ecosystems, and future overpopulation prediction models give us cause for concern?

(THE CONVERSATION) 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, ...

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(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 ...