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

A crew from the National Geographic Channel wraps up three days of filming at Biosphere 2 today. The footage will be used for a show called X-Ray Earth, scheduled to air in December. From the press ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — As part of our summer series, One Tank Trips, the crew of Good Morning Tucson is taking you to places on much less than a tank of gas. April Madison headed north of Tucson to Biosphere ...

Before dawn on April 4, 1994, Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo slipped across the foothills of Arizona’s Santa Catalina Mountains. They made their way to a looming monument of geodesic domes and ...

Twenty years after the first crew was sealed inside its glass walls, the University of Arizona is set to be the new owner of Biosphere 2. The UA will announce Monday that the giant terrarium, located ...

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 ...