Butterflies that independently evolved the same wing patterns have also evolved similar eyes and brains which are fine-tuned ...

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

Imagine a massive glass-enclosed world where rainforests meet deserts, and oceans exist in the middle of Arizona’s Santa Catalina Mountains. No, this isn’t a sci-fi movie set – it’s Biosphere 2, and ...

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 ...

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 study: Tropical forests may be more resilient to rising temperatures than predicted PHOENIX – Researchers discovered at Biosphere 2 near Tucson that tropical forests may be more resilient ...

Three decades after the original experiment, Biosphere 2 is still doing research that's the first of its kind. "There's no place where you can test on a large scale the response of complex ecosystems.

The facility they would be living in came complete with an intensive agriculture unit and five separate biomes including a tropical rainforest and a savanna grassland. Early on, Biosphere 2 was the ...

Dear EarthTalk: What ever became of the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona and what did we learn from it? – B.C., Tampa, FL Biosphere 2 project began in 1984, led by John Allen who called it “The ...

Biosphere 2 participants are shown in a still image from the 2020 documentary "Spaceship Earth," which chronicles their two-year experiment. (Peter Menzel/Neon via AP) ...

From studying rainforest canopies to otherworldly environments, Biosphere 2 opens an immense amount of possibility for different fields of study at a time in which they are prevalent points of ...