Seed Vault

US accuses Syrian regime and ‘other actors’ of diverting quake aid and blocking deliveries NEW YORK CITY: The US on Tuesday accused the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad of diverting lifesaving international humanitarian aid intended to help earthquake victims, that is instead being sold in markets or benefiting the…

Science in meter and verse Credit: J. Berger/BRG/Global Crop Diversity Trust Hoarded at the heart of an Arctic mountain, within an archipelago of snow: an ark of seeds. Cocooned against soil, nuclear bodies hunker and wait for some future hungerscape. A gathering of crops, varied faces folded into foil, shuttered…

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GitHub just stored a full archive of all current public repository data in a frozen Norwegian mountain.Dubbed the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, the project was designed "to preserve open-source software for future generations" for the next 1,000 years.Similar to how you'd back up a disk drive, GitHub is archiving all…

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the concept of seed preservation as well as more than a half-century of plastic accumulation.(Sködt McNalty/CBC)Hello, Earthlings! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable…

Credit: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) A new study finds that proposal to create a "microbial Noah's ark" to protect the long-term health of humanity is feasible and should move forward into a pilot project phase, that would include installing infrastructure to store microbes in a site such as Norway…

IMAGE: A new study finds that proposal to create a 'microbial Noah's ark' to protect the long-term health of humanity is feasible and should move forward into a pilot project phase,... view more  Credit: Joana Carvalho IGC 2020 The Rutgers University's initiative will give an important contribute to the health of…

It was summer, and most of Australia was on fire. Seasonal bushfires have always been part of Australian life, but never like those that rang in 2020. Fire fronts met in regions so remote humans rarely visited, and roared towards cities, so hot they created their own weather systems and…

Join Plus+ and get exclusive shows and extensions! Subscribe Today! It seems inevitable that at some point the world as we know it will end. Considering the world events going on right now, some might even argue that it has already begun. In many cases there doesn’t seem to really…

Life during a global pandemic takes on a surreal quality. The ubiquitous presence of social media and a constant fire hose of depressing news can make it particularly hard if you're already feeling anxious. So, we've put together a little round-up of recent science news that we find inspiring, encouraging,…