Biosphere 2's latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat

Biosphere 2 researchers research climate change in Arizona’s only rainforest

Most days, you’ll find Joost van Haren tromping through Arizona’s only tropical rainforest. An assistant research professor at the UA, van Haren works in the rainforest at Biosphere 2—in the middle of ...
WESA

Inside the evolution of Biosphere 2, from '90s punchline to scientific playground

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 ...
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This Country Just Became the World’s First Entirely Protected Biosphere in History

In a move hailed by conservationists as “historic”, the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe has become the first country ...