Biosphere 2's Landscape Evolution Observatory is ideal for the careful study of how weathering and primary succession work together. Those processes both happen at the small, molecular scale but ...

A new study reveals that microbial life deep within Earth has persisted and repeatedly flourished through hundreds of ...

Researchers conducted a unique experiment simulating a drought in the rainforest ecosystem of Biosphere 2. Lasting around 9.5 ...

Taber MacCallum and Jane Poynter witnessed the most affecting solar eclipse of their lives in 1992. That's because as they watched the Sun disappear behind the Moon’s shadow, they were also watching ...

An environmental organisation has confirmed an eco-designation could be at risk if plans for a massive data centre in it are ...

TEHRAN - The judicial and legal committee of the cabinet of ministers is conducting a final review of the executive regulations for biosphere reserves, which will establish the framework for managing ...

Phil Pauley, a London-based concept designer, has unveiled his vision for Sub-Biosphere 2 – a self-sustainable underwater habitat designed for aquanauts, tourism and oceanographic life sciences as ...

Jane Poynter entered the world's first hermetically sealed, manufactured ecological system in 1991 with seven other people. Biosphere 2-- the 3.15-acre, almost-airtight outpost in the Arizona desert ...

Biospherians (left to right): Jane Poynter, Linda Leigh, Mark Van Thillo, Taber MacCallum, Roy Walford (in front), Abigail Alling, Sally Silverstone and Bernd Zabel inside the Biosphere 2 in 1990. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biosphere 2 is a research facility located near Tucson, Ariz. Katja Schulz/Flickr, CC BY From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from ...