Residents of one of England's most ancient forests have raised concerns about their council's bid to designate the land as a ...

Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to ...

Italy isn’t only about Renaissance cities and lazy, sun-soaked lunches. It’s also home to some of the best natural reserves ...

Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia highlights inspiring examples of how biosphere reserves contribute to biodiversity conservation while supporting sustainable development and highlights 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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series detailing developments in the UA’s operation of Biosphere 2. The UA looks to tackle “”grand challenges”” and inform the public about science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study on functional biosphere integrity, or the plant kingdom’s ability to co-regulate the state of the ecosystem, found ...

Jane Poynter entered the world's first hermetically sealed, manufactured ecological system in 1991 with seven other people. Biosphere 2-- the 3.15-acre, almost-airtight outpost in the Arizona desert ...

The two actors play lifelong friends who have a lot to deal with in Mel Eslyn's doomsday comedy, premiering in Toronto. By John DeFore Post-apocalyptic survival meets the anxious buddy humor of ...

Primetime Emmy winners Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass are stuck together in the teaser for the end-of-the-world dramedy Biosphere. In Mel Eslyn's surprise Toronto International Film Festival debut ...