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 ...

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 ...

Residents of one of England's most ancient forests have raised concerns about their council's bid to designate the land as a ...

Italy isn’t only about Renaissance cities and lazy, sun-soaked lunches. It’s also home to some of the best natural reserves ...

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 ...

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 ...

ORACLE, Ariz. (KVOA) — Just about an hour out of Tucson is the world's largest controlled environment dedicated to understanding the impacts of climate change. We're talking about the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study on functional biosphere integrity, or the plant kingdom’s ability to co-regulate the state of the ecosystem, found ...

Mel Eslyn’s directorial debut has Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass as best buds who are humanity’s endpoint — or maybe not. We never do find out the cause or nature of the environmental apocalypse ...