Nestled in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains, around 31 miles from Tucson, there exists an oasis; a collection of environments one would never anticipate to exist in the scorched Arizona desert.

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

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 ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - 30 years ago, 8 people were sealed in the Biosphere 2 facility for an experiment that was the first of its kind. On September 26, 1991, a crew of 8 closed an airtight door, locking ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2007, the University of Arizona took over the management of Biosphere 2 from Columbia University which ran it from 1996 to 2003. Please click on the slide below to see this slideshow of the EDN ...

PARIS, France, June 16, 2023 (ENS) – UNESCO has approved the designation of 10 new biosphere reserves in nine countries, and one transboundary biosphere reserve that stretches across the border ...

Explore Madhav Gadgil's impactful contributions to biodiversity conservation in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and the Western ...

Environmental Conservation is one of the longest-standing, most highly-cited of the interdisciplinary environmental science journals. It includes research papers, reports, comments, subject reviews, ...