Inside the ‘Doomsday Vault’ buried 500 feet inside an Arctic mountain

BY: JESSICA BEUKER Way up North, 1,300 km beyond the Arctic Circle, the farthest North that is possible for any human to fly, lays the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Located on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between…

Why most of our world’s food crops are becoming extinct

BY: LAURA ROJAS  A disturbing study conducted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) back in 1999 revealed that since the 1900s, 75% of agricultural crops have been lost, spiking a decline in plant variety and putting at risk…