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 ...

Biosphere 2's 30-year-old rain forest is nearly 1.3 million cubic feet of tropical habitat supporting a complex patchwork of nearly 98 species and canopy structures, making the B2 rain forest a key ...

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 ...

ORACLE, AZ — Arizona is home to one of the most unique science experiments in the world. Biosphere 2 is a groundbreaking research facility studying climate change and ecosystems inside an enclosed ...

Atmosphere-biosphere interactions play a vital role in regulating the exchange of energy, matter, and gases between the Earth’s atmosphere and its terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. These ...

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 ...

UNESCO’s publication Pockets of Hope: Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia highlights inspiring examples of how biosphere reserves contribute to biodiversity conservation while supporting ...