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 Human ...

Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in Biosphere 2 during its first closure experiment, offers a compelling insider’s view of the dramatic story behind the mini-world in his forthcoming ...

China’s miniature biosphere experiment has yielded a sprouting cotton seed, and it’s the first plant to germinate on the Moon—an important first step in creating a viable, self-sustaining lunar colony ...

In the late 1980s, in a patch of desert north of Tucson, Arizona, a group of environmentalists built a self-contained miniature world under glass which became home to researchers for a two-year ...

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. Their air and water were recycled, and they grew ...

Earlier this month, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) made history by becoming the first space agency ever to drop a lander on the ‘Dark Side’ of the Moon; but as it would seem, this was ...

ORACLE, Ariz. — If God had been a Texas billionaire, the Garden of Eden might have looked like Biosphere 2 — a wilderness under glass with a tiny ocean, where the chosen few can stroll to a desert, a ...