Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than ...

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 ...

Every year, it becomes clearer and clearer that climate change is extremely likely to affect our food supply; crops may not grow as well in certain areas as they did in the past, wildfires are ...

High above the Arctic Circle, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete entrance juts out of a mountainside like something from a science fiction novel. This remote facility, dubbed 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 ...