Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes throughout its history, but new research suggests those changes may not have ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

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 ...

A new checklist documents 3,261 flowering plant species in Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, highlighting its biodiversity significance and conservation needs.

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 ...

Primetime Emmy winners Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass are stuck together in the teaser for the end-of-the-world dramedy Biosphere. In Mel Eslyn's surprise Toronto International Film Festival debut ...

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 ...

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 ...