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 ...

When you think of rainforests your mind likely jumps to the forests of Borneo or the Amazon. What you may not realise is that ...

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 ...