An international team of researchers has descended on University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, sealing off the complex’s rain forest, to conduct a one-of-a-kind study examining the impact of droughts on ...

Biosphere 2's Ocean Habitat is welcoming corals for the first time in over 30 years, potentially aiding global coral reef ...

UA Biosphere 2 is hosting Earth Month, a series of activities held on weekends during April where people can learn about different environments through a variety of interactive learning experiences.

ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, just outside Tucson, Ariz., sits a massive, multilevel greenhouse that's probably best known as the inspiration for a Pauly Shore movie. A slick, stepped ...

Standing atop Biosphere 2’s iconic rooftop dressed in the same spacesuit George Clooney wore in the 2013 film “Gravity,” ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — As part of our summer series, One Tank Trips, the crew of Good Morning Tucson is taking you to places on much less than a tank of gas. April Madison headed north of Tucson to Biosphere ...

Biosphere 2 started with eight scientists and a very ambitious experiment. Now, almost 35 years later, it's still being used for cutting-edge research. Scientists continue to use it to study Earth's ...

Biosphere 2, the failed experiment turned hugely popular field-research facility for Columbia students, is up for sale. The glass and steel structure in the Arizona desert contains a rain forest, ...

Columbia University’s days of managing the glass-and-steel terrarium known as Biosphere 2 will soon come to an end. Columbia will stop operating the research facility on December 22 as part of a ...

They lived for two years and 20 minutes under the glass of a miniature Earth, complete with an ocean, rain forest, desert, grasslands and mangroves. Their air and water were recycled, and they grew ...

Biosphere 2, a facility dedicated to the research and understanding of global scientific issues, is reopening. A bunch of scientists won't live in it this time. Instead the new owners of the Biosphere ...

Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to ...