High above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Frozen, mountainous, and remote, it's home to hundreds of polar bears and a couple of ...

The GitHub Arctic Vault program is part of the now Microsoft-owned code repository GitHub, where programmers can share code with others to check for bugs or for them to implement in their own programs ...

An Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island received new samples last week from the largest number of depositors since 2020, reflecting fear about the threat of conflict and climate change to ...

A "DOOMSDAY vault" has received a new delivery of crop seeds to preserve forever if the Earth is wiped out by a nuclear war. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located 430 feet down, deep inside a ...

COPENHAGEN — An Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island has received new samples from the largest number of depositors since 2020, reflecting fear about the threat of conflict and climate ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Representatives from many countries and universities arrive in the Svalbard's global seed vault with new seeds, in Longyearbyen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from ...