In the COVID-19 era, many people are seeking socially distanced activities where the risk of transmitting the coronavirus is minimal. Here's a new, limited-time-only experience that could alleviate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four women and four men spent two years cooped up in the world’s largest terrarium on Earth’s coffee table in the Arizona desert. Their numbing feat raises the question: So what? Biosphere 2 has been ...

Bernd Zabel, from left, Linda Leigh, Taber MacMullen, Abigail Alling, Mark Van Thillo, Sally Silverstone, Roy Walford and Jane Poynter in a still from the documentary "Spaceship Earth." (Philippe ...

Many people, like myself, remember the “Old” Biosphere 2, from back in the fall of 1991, in which eight men and women moved into a glass and steel complex spanning three acres forty miles north of ...

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 ...

Musician and visual artist Alice Dudley has said becoming Manx Wildlife Trust's new Biosphere Artist in Residence felt like a ...

A competition to prepare the application dossier for placing the Xeros and Diarizos river valleys on the Unesco list of biosphere reserves was announced on Tuesday by the commissioner for the ...

I saw the most god-awful Pauly Shore this weekend- Biodome. Totally lame, at least it had some cute girls in it.<BR><BR>Anyway, what was the result of the biodome? Did the scientists actually succeed ...

ORACLE, Ariz. – 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 ...