Seed Vault

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! An Update On Microsoft's 'GitHub Arctic Vault Program' (news.com.au) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 01, 2020 @04:34PM from the cold-storage dept. news.com.au reports: The GitHub Arctic Vault program is part of the now Microsoft-owned…

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A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain's Prince Charles.The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on a mountainside in 2008, was designed…

Posted February 26, 2020 15:26:51 A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds has received 60,000 new samples, including specimens from the garden of Prince Charles and sacred corn from the Native American Cherokee Nation. Key points: Thirty gene banks added seeds to the vault this weekIt now contains…

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received a major a new deposit of seeds from several hundred plant species. In a formal ceremony on February 25, 2020, hosted by the Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and attended by international dignitaries, the seeds from 35 gene banks spread over all seven…

OSLO: A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday (Feb 25) of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain's Prince Charles.The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on a mountainside in…

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. Matthias Heyde/SGSV The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic, also known as the “doomsday vault,” has added its one millionth seed variety. Built in Norway in 2008, the vault is meant to protect crop diversity and safeguard global food supplies in case…

OSLO — A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples will contain one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain’s Prince Charles.The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on an Arctic mountainside…

Wild meadow seeds from Prince Charles' Highgrove residence are among the new plant species being added to the Arctic 'doomsday vault' in Svalbard, Norway.The royal gardens' seeds will be joined by those of onions from Brazil, guar beans from central Asia and hundreds of others stored in the vault's collection…

A large deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has taken the number of seed samples stored at the facility to more than a million.The so-called "doomsday vault"—located on a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean around 620 miles from the North Pole—is the largest backup of seeds on…