This week’s Green Sense Minute features Lise Lykke Steffensen, CEO of NordGen, who talks about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, where duplicate seeds are stored from around the world.

The Global Seed Vault in Norway was built to shelter millions of crops from any potential natural or man-made disaster. More from News The Global Seed Vault in Norway was built to shelter millions ...

seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under ...

you can see seed samples that have been shipped over from North Korea. The extinction of a crop is as irreversible as the extinction of an animal, and that’s what makes this vault so important.

a huge vault sits 130 metres inside a cavernous sandstone mountain. Behind the thick concrete wall lies the most diverse selection of food crop seeds in the world. Seeds from almost every country ...

Dornith Doherty is a photographer who has been working with biologists to document seed banks around the world since 2008. Her work is currently displayed in an exhibition at the National Academy of ...

Since 2008, the vault has been stockpiling most of the world's crop seeds in below-freezing conditions in an effort to maintain food diversity and protect plant species from extinction.