The structure reaches 91 feet at its highest point, covers more than three acres and contains 6,500 windows. The Biosphere 2 ...

Inside Biosphere 2 Researchers originally built Biosphere 2 with the intention to create and study an artificial, self-sustaining biosphere, or the sum of all ecosystems that support life on Earth.

Biosphere 2 is a groundbreaking research facility studying climate change and ecosystems inside an enclosed glass structure in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.

In 1991, Biosphere 2 captured the imagination of the world. A crew of eight "Biospherians" clad in vaguely "Star Trek"-like uniforms ceremoniously marched through an airlock and into their new ...

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.

They lived for two years and 20 minutes under the glass of a miniature Earth, complete with an ocean, rain forest, desert, grasslands and mangroves.

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 ...

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.

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 glass ...