The facility, owned by the University of Arizona, was closed for a day in November to accommodate MrBeast's production crew.

Thirty years ago last month, on Sept. 26, 1993, a group of eight weary, visionary adventurers “returned” to Earth after two years of living together in a miniature version of our world — a ...

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series detailing developments in the UA’s operation of Biosphere 2. The UA looks to tackle “”grand challenges”” and inform the public about science ...

Averaging 100,000 visitors per year, the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 provides an opportunity for science and the public to have a better dialogue. The sprawling 40-acre campus in Oracle, Ariz.

ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, just outside Tucson, Ariz., sits a massive, multilevel greenhouse that's probably best known as the inspiration for a Pauly Shore movie. A slick, stepped ...

ORACLE, Ariz. (KVOA) — Just about an hour out of Tucson is the world's largest controlled environment dedicated to understanding the impacts of climate change. We're talking about the University of ...

Biosphere 2 will continue to operate as one of the world’s most diverse controlled ecological systems thanks in part to a $30 million endowment from its co-founder. Philanthropist Edward P. Bass, who ...

Researchers who study Earth's biosphere tend to operate from one of three scientific cultures, each with distinct ways of conducting science, and which have been operating mostly independently from ...

The rare Sonoyta pupfish were introduced into a desert river habitat inside the huge Biosphere 2 structure near Tucson. The dish are native to Quitobaquito Springs near the Arizona-Mexico border, but ...