In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the ...

In the midst of climate change, awareness of humanity’s negative impact on the planet has grown, making the idea of moving to ...

In the Arizona desert, a vast glass structure sits far from cities and farmland. It was built to test an idea that once seemed urgent and uncertain. C.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The human terrarium. The first reality show. Spaceship earth. On Sept. 26, 1991, four men and four women began a two-year ...

John de Dios Steve DeLong, project manager for Biosphere 2’s Landscape Evolution Observatory, thanks his large team for their hard work with getting the project up and running. DeLong will leave ...

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 ...

Looking for something completely different yet totally safe to do with your family this weekend? Biosphere 2 is here for you. For the next two months, the grounds of the research facility, originally ...