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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the '80s, a group of scientists and artists wanted to know if they could recreate Earth's ecosystem, so they built Biosphere 2 ...

Biosphere 2 was touted as a new Noah’s Ark, a new Garden of Eden, a way to test how humans might colonize other worlds and study the effects of greenhouse gasses on Biosphere 1 — aka the Earth. Eight ...

Many people, like myself, remember the “Old” Biosphere 2, from back in the fall of 1991, in which eight men and women moved into a glass and steel complex spanning three acres forty miles north of ...

The last Biosphere 2 project ended 18 years ago. Correction: The failed Biosphere 2 project ended 18 years ago. That’s right, our only real attempt to create an artificial, materially closed ...

From studying coral reefs to coffee farming, UA leaders believe facility north of Tucson is poised to gain footing as ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C "When we send Viking to Mars, or Voyager ...

In the ’80s, a group of scientists and artists wanted to know if they could recreate Earth’s ecosystem, so they built Biosphere 2 (Earth was known as Biosphere 1) in Oracle, Ariz. The experiment was ...