In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Biologist John Adams, Biosphere 2’s deputy director, has been with the project since 1995, when he was a new University of Arizona graduate. “It’s always been an audacious, ambitious project ...

Biosphere 2 lives on as a successful research site 30 years after eight people emerged from the experiment in the Arizona desert. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Sam Lubell / For The Times ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Adams said 55 people now work at the site, including 30 researchers. Bass donated $30 million to Biosphere 2 last year and sits on its advisory board. “They have been doing a really great job, laying ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - 30 years ago, 8 people were sealed in the Biosphere 2 facility for an experiment that was the first of its kind. On September 26, 1991, a crew of 8 closed an airtight door, locking ...

Adams, Breshears, Biosphere 2 director Travis Huxman and others also confirmed the primary mechanism that causes drought-stressed tree mortality in their Biosphere 2 experiment: carbon starvation.

Biosphere 2’s rainforest is part of an experiment designed to shed light on how tropical ecosystems will fare under the stress of a hotter, drier shift in climate.

Biosphere 2 (the Earth itself is Biosphere 1, the movie explains) was an experiment designed, at least in part, to explore the possibility of creating a self-sustaining ecosystem for long-term ...

Sustainable leadership and governance require more than resilience — they require deep roots. By embracing intentional ...

In the early 1990s, a small team tried to survive in a hermetically sealed space containing replicas of Earth’s ecosystems.