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 ...

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, 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 ...

On Sept. 26, 1991, a grand experiment began. Eight people were locked in the giant terrarium, Biosphere II, to live without physical contact with the outside world for two years. Biosphere II was a ...

Biosphere 2 will continue to operate as one of the world’s most diverse controlled ecological systems thanks in part to a $30 million endowment from its co-founder. Philanthropist Edward P. Bass, who ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Exciting developments are underway at the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2, where corals will soon be introduced into the ocean habitat for the first time under the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Beginning Thursday, April 27 at 9 a.m., a four-person crew given the moniker Inclusion 1 made their way inside a sealed, pressurized habitat within the Biosphere 2 compound. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A page from the Deseret News on Sept. 26, 1991, as the eight "Biospherians" entered their enclosed life biosphere in Oracle, Ariz.