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Facts About the Global Seed Vault
The Global Seed Vault is a storage facility that safely stores the world's seeds in case of worldwide disaster.
Crop Failure and Fading Food Supplies: Climate Change's Lasting Impact (Op-Ed)
Opinion Cereals are not just for breakfast — and with grain yields falling, expect to feel the impact.
'Last-Resort' Antibiotics Fail Against New Superbugs
A new gene in a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) not only protects the bacteria against last-defense antibiotics, but is easily shared among microbial species.
'Doomsday' Seed Vault: The Science Behind World's Arctic Storage Cube
The ongoing civil war in Syria has led to the first-ever withdrawal from the Svalbard "doomsday" Global Seed Vault.
New Farm Maps Offer In-Depth Picture of Global Agriculture
Two new maps available for free download considerably improve estimates of land dedicated to agriculture, and provide the first global overview of field sizes.
Engineering a Better Food Bank
Opinion Fairly and efficiently distributing food is a large and complicated problem and a team of engineers set out to make it work better.
How Despots Arose With Agriculture (Op-Ed)
Opinion It seems that with the beginning of agriculture around 10,000 years ago, group decision making changed
