Svalbard News

“The shipment of the seeds are developing as planned”

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault will open on 26 February. The facility will house seed samples of food plants from absolutely the entire world. via The Norway Post

“We all need to do more and understand more.”

A Fredericton man will ski to the North Pole in an effort to awareness about climate change. via CBC

Seven postgraduate researchers from Swansea University will travel to the Arctic and Antarctic Polar Regions this month to learn more about glaciology and the effects of climate change up close. via News Wales

“Our ability to endow this facility with such an impressive array of diversity is a powerful testament to the incredible work of scientists at our centers, who have been so dedicated to ensuring the survival of the world's most important crop species”

Main Category: Biology / Biochemistry Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 02 Feb 2008 Twenty-one boxes filled with 7,000 unique seed samples from more than 36 African nations were ... via MediLexicon

“So called - orphan' crops like cowpea and groundnut are not minor or insignificant crops”

Should a major catastrophe hit the planet, a doomsday seed vault deep in the Arctic ice will ensure that survivors never go hungry. via IRIN

“Doomsday Vault", as it has been dubbed by the press. "The CGIAR collections are the 'crown jewels' of international agriculture”

Three tons of maize and wheat seeds are on their way to a deep-freeze vault built on an island in Norway, in the Arctic Circle, to be stored with 200,000 crop varieties from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the ... via Inter Press Service

Longyearbyen, Norway. It's a village on the Svalbard archipelago, close to the Arctic Circle. via CHATTER

“Svalbard will be able to help replenish genebanks if they're hit”

At the end of January, more than 200,000 crop varieties from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East-drawn from vast seed collections maintained by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural ... via Free Republic

“With coming climatic changes, higher food prices, and expanding markets for biofuels, our best available options for progress, if not survival, will be in what we have conserved and studied against all thinkable predictions.”

Seeds from more than 200,000 of the Earth's crops are being stored in an underground Norwegian vault capable of keeping them safe for thousands of years. via Daily India

“The CGIAR collections are the 'crown jewels' of international agriculture”

The cornucopia of rice, wheat, beans, sorghum, sweet potatoes, lentils, chick peas and a host of other food, forage and agroforestry plants is to be safeguarded in the facility, which was created as a ... via EurekAlert!

“I have wasted a considerable amount of time with the PowerCost Monitor. The Install DVD was great, but after several hours of tweaking the install ...”

Abe Lincoln said: ""Compare that to concentrated solar power, which only gets more powerful as the seasons get hot." Solar surface insolation is not proportio..." [ read ] here we go again said: "Instead of ... via Treehugger

“The drilling tests are being analyzed and all indications are that here are ideal conditions for storing CO2”

The university on Svalbard is preparing to test out a possible underground storage facility for carbon dioxide in Longyearbyen, in hopes of making the area "CO2-neutral." Scientists want to make Longyearbyen ... via Aftenposten in English

“They destroyed an incredibly valuable resource. These countries were the birthplaces of agriculture.”

Regulars Interact 11 November 2007 09:31 Engineers last week finished work on one of the world's most ambitious conservation projects: a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside in the archipelago of ... via Mail & Guardian

More than 8,600 km2 of ocean floor mapped, 31 metres of ocean sediment extracted and almost 3,345 nautical miles of navigation through Arctic waters. via Innovations-report.com

An excerpt from Anne-Sophie Redisch : Relations between the Russians and the Norwegians on Svalbard are generally good, but disagreements do occur. via Tom McMahon

The governor of Murmansk has proposed that Norway and Russia undertake joint oil operations off arctic Svalbard. via Aftenposten in English

“Millet and crops like cow pea receive so little attention.”

Today is World Food Day. In the battle against hunger and to safeguard strains of essential crops, a seed bank is being built. via The Star Online

Svalbard is important to the Russians, and they want to increase their activity on the Arctic archipelago. via The Norway Post