ORACLE, ARIZ.–The buildings of Biosphere 2 stand dazzling white against the scrubby, brown landscape and blazing sun of the Sonoran desert, looking like some sort of space colony or the set of a ...

A second mission started in 1994 but only made it six months. The story of Biosphere 2, however, has evolved well beyond the late-night punchlines, tell-all books and the Pauly Shore movie Bio-Dome.

It's Been 25 Years Since 8 Scientists Sealed Themselves Inside Biosphere 2 For Two Whole Years It took more than three months just to make a pizza. By Lucy Sherriff 21/05/2016 02:32pm BST ...

Today in history, In 1991, four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Ariz., called Biosphere 2.

The dream project of neo-hippie John Allen, the Biosphere 2 (the first Biosphere is, as Allen’s group was careful to note, our beloved planet Earth) was an exercise in publicity as much as it ...

Inside Biosphere 2's giant glass pyramid, tropical trees stretch 80 feet above the forest floor. Crazy ants, so named because of their erratic movements, scurry below.

In early October, Biosphere 2 will receive endangered Quitobaquito pupfish to introduce into its habitat. The fish hail from Arizona's Quitobaquito Springs by the U.S.-Mexico border, where water ...