In the ’80s, a group of scientists and artists wanted to know if they could recreate Earth’s ecosystem, so they built Biosphere 2 (Earth was known as Biosphere 1) in Oracle, Ariz. The experiment was ...

For sale: 137,000-square-foot building with stunning views of the Catalina and Tortolita mountains through 6,500 windows. The Texas company that built and owns the Biosphere 2 Center near Oracle ...

Biosphere 2 was touted as a new Noah’s Ark, a new Garden of Eden, a way to test how humans might colonize other worlds and study the effects of greenhouse gasses on Biosphere 1 — aka the Earth. Eight ...

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 ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research... ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, ...

Dear EarthTalk: What ever became of the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona and what did we learn from it? – B.C., Tampa, FL Biosphere 2 project began in 1984, led by John Allen who called it “The Human ...

Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in Biosphere 2 during its first closure experiment, will offer an insider’s view of the dramatic story behind the mini-world in two separate talks at ...

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 ...