Environmentalists and researchers have sent 30,000 new seed samples to a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean to prepare for a global catastrophe. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which was constructed to withstand nuclear war and countless other disasters, is a safe haven for plant life. Recent deposits include seeds for vegetables and herbs from various countries, with the …
The seed bank that's inadvertently storing fungi Alamy Many of the seeds stored at the Millennium Seed Bank are home to microscopic fungi, which have been hiding undetected for years. In the first study of its kind, to our knowledge, in a major seed bank, we found hundreds of fungi hidden inside seeds from the Millennium Seed Bank, some of …
