Genebanks - items that preserve and store genetic material, such as seeds, tissues, or DNA samples - are sent from all over the world to Svalbard in a bid to keep native - and sometimes ancient - crop ...

Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds over 4.5 types of crops, and the Norwegian organisation in charge of the preservation ...

The Missouri Botanical Garden established a seed bank in 2013 to preserve and store the seeds of Missouri’s native, rare and ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most ...

Gaza’s health ministry said that 88 people had been killed over the past day. Israeli and Hamas officials have been holding indirect cease-fire talks via mediators in Qatar. By Hiba Yazbek and ...

She then goes to Rotterdam to attend the centennial World Seed Congress, an annual gathering of seed leaders. Here, she interviews Beth Bechdol, the deputy director-general of the Food and ...

The world is heavily inspired by the environments of countries like Norway and Iceland, taking their history, culture, flora, and folklore, and muddling them together with The Elder Scrolls ...