Not getting enough wildlife with ASU in town for the weekend? The UA Biosphere 2 will be hosting its eighth Science Saturday, where you can learn how to better coexist in a changing environment during ...

In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the Arizona desert, a kind of fake Earth built to see whether humans could ...

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series detailing developments in the UA’s operation of Biosphere 2. The UA looks to tackle “”grand challenges”” and inform the public about science ...

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, ...

Sustainability consultant Jane Poynter tells her story of living in a hermetically sealed environment in the Arizona desert for two years and 20... What Lessons Came Out Of Biosphere 2? Part 2 of the ...

Biosphere 2 started with eight scientists and a very ambitious experiment. Now, almost 35 years later, it's still being used for cutting-edge research. Scientists continue to use it to study Earth's ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — As part of our summer series, One Tank Trips, the crew of Good Morning Tucson is taking you to places on much less than a tank of gas. April Madison headed north of Tucson to Biosphere ...

Standing atop Biosphere 2’s iconic rooftop dressed in the same spacesuit George Clooney wore in the 2013 film “Gravity,” YouTube personality MrBeast shared a piece of Southern Arizona with the world ...

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 ...