In the COVID-19 era, many people are seeking socially distanced activities where the risk of transmitting the coronavirus is minimal. Here's a new, limited-time-only experience that could alleviate ...

Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to ...

If filmmakers wanted to make movies during the pandemic, especially low-budget independent comedies, it helped if their story was self-contained. "Biosphere" is self-contained, just two actors and a ...

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 ...

Many people, like myself, remember the “Old” Biosphere 2, from back in the fall of 1991, in which eight men and women moved into a glass and steel complex spanning three acres forty miles north of ...

Sustainability consultant Jane Poynter tells her story of living in a hermetically sealed environment in the Arizona desert for two years and 20... What Lessons Came Out Of Biosphere 2? Part 2 of the ...

Costa Rica has a wealth of biosphere reserves, and the number is likely to rise in the future. This is the country’s, and UNESCO’s, way of preserving areas of natural beauty in the country. On this ...

The mighty steel-and-glass compound known as Biosphere 2 is a sight that never loses its beauty, its absurdity or its wonder. Jutting out of the hot, dry ground of the Sonoran Desert, it was designed ...

ORACLE, Ariz. – Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might ...