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 ...

In September 1991, amid much media fanfare, eight people entered a closed experimental facility called Biosphere 2 for a two-year stint in total isolation. They endured hunger, a dangerous rise in CO2 ...

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 ...

We only have a fragmented understanding of the complex interactions that go on in the dirt as water flows past soil and microbes. To gain fresh insight into the hydrologic processes that make life on ...

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 ...

Conduct a web search for Biosphere 2 and one of the first things that comes up is the question: Did it fail? Watch the documentary film, “Spaceship Earth” (★★★ out of five) and the answer could well ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Noosa. Followed categories will be added to My News. Jeff Nuske, who failed to get voted on to the NCBA at its AGM, is concerned by the non-committal response from ...

THE claims being made by Councillor Pete West over the bid for Biosphere Reserve Status are misleading (The Argus, March 27). Firstly, Biosphere Reserve Status offers no additional powers to “protect ...

Steve Bannon does not, at this point, seem to have been a good hire for Donald Trump’s campaign. It has emerged that he was charged with domestic violence and battery in 1996 and allegedly threatened ...

I rented the movie on YouTube. Takeaways: 1) Save a buck and get the SD version - most of the thing is from archive VHS or 8mm film 2) I and my wife _really_ enjoyed ...