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 ...

In a world where the drumbeat of environmental loss is growing louder, a new landmark report from UNESCO has revealed a rare ...

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 ...

In response to a request from provincial and local authorities, the UNESCO Regional Office in Montevideo mobilized an emergency technical mission to support reconstruction efforts and strengthen the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn about UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves and why you should visit them.

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 ...

Mel Eslyn makes her directorial debut with the sci-fi dramedy from IFC Films. Per the official synopsis, in the not-too-distant future, the last two men on Earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity ...

There are so many flavors of the apocalypse film, including the bombast and spectacle à la Roland Emmerich and the punky desert chic of a “Mad Max.” But there’s also the lo-fi take, the kind of ...