The facility, owned by the University of Arizona, was closed for a day in November to accommodate MrBeast's production crew.

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 ...

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 ...

ORACLE, AZ — Four dozen Sonoyta pupfish are now swimming beneath the towering glass pyramids of the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 after a multi-year effort to conserve the critically endangered ...

Scott Saleska receives funding from National Science Foundation, NASA, and U.S. Department of Energy. Ghiwa Makke receives funding from National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy. Chris ...

A new study on functional biosphere integrity, or the plant kingdom’s ability to co-regulate the state of the ecosystem, found that Earth is in trouble—big trouble. Published in the renowned journal ...