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Welcome to Biosphere 2. The world's largest controlled environment dedicated to understanding the impacts of climate change. In the News. Students compile data to yield insights into plant growth.
Biosphere 2 is an American Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. Its mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe.
Through science stories and interviews, you'll have the opportunity to learn more about our amazing, world-class research as you traverse around the exterior and through the human habitat and wilderness areas of Biosphere 2!
Biosphere 2 advances our understanding of natural and human-made ecosystems through integrated research that drives the discovery and development of interventions that increase the resilience and sustainability of Earth systems and human quality of life.
Oct 4, 2021 · Here in Biosphere 2, the world’s largest controlled environment dedicated to climate research, scientists can tinker with scaled-down ecosystems by switching off sprinklers and cranking up the...
May 24, 2024 · Biosphere 2, scientific research facility located in Oracle, Arizona, U.S., designed to emulate Earth’s environment (Biosphere 1) that was perhaps best known for two missions conducted in the early 1990s in which crews were sealed inside the enclosure to study survivability.
Biosphere 2 is a large-scale earth science facility near Tucson, Arizona, that encompasses about 3 acres of land and houses five synthetic ecosystems encased in a glass and metal...
Mar 29, 2019 · March 29, 2019. 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...
May 5, 2020 · "Spaceship Earth," a new documentary set to premiere May 8, reveals the incredible true story of life in quarantine inside the experimental habitat Biosphere 2.
May 7, 2020 · In 1991, a group of 8 people isolated themselves for 2 years. Spaceship Earth tells their story. The new documentary tells the weird and surprisingly uplifting story of Biosphere 2.
