8 people entered a sealed glass world believing they could survive for two years. Then the oxygen began to disappear

Deep in the Arizona desert near Oracle sits one of the strangest experiments ever built, a sealed, 3.14-acre glass and steel ...
Chicago Sun-Times

‘Biosphere’: It’s the end of the movie as we know it, and I feel duped

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Phys.org

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

Biosphere 2's Landscape Evolution Observatory is ideal for the careful study of how weathering and primary succession work together. Those processes both happen at the small, molecular scale but ...
Wired

Biosphere 2 Not Such a Bust

In most people's minds, Biosphere 2 was a fabulously expensive failure, a $200 million earth-in-a-bottle that choked on carbon dioxide and was overrun by ants. But not everybody feels that way. "In ...
NPR

'Biosphere' takes a mostly comic look at a friendship between the last men on Earth

If filmmakers wanted to make movies during the pandemic, especially low-budget independent comedies, it helped if their story was self-contained. "Biosphere" is self-contained, just two actors and a ...
KLCC

Oregon’s UNESCO biosphere is thriving, despite federal cuts

Oregon’s only UNESCO biosphere reserve — celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 18. The milestone came as more than a dozen ...
Yahoo

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

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 ...