Markedly increased levels of cadmium, zinc and copper were found in the biosphere in and around brooks, streams, fenny areas and lakes downstream from the waste tips of an old copper mine (Bersbo) in ...

The space prototype colony Biosphere II shows high carbon dioxide levels. Biosphere II’s carbon dioxide level was more than that in the atmosphere but within safety standards, according to a report ...

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 ...

A newly disclosed drop in the amount of oxygen in Biosphere 2 poses no immediate threat to the health of eight people sealed inside in the glass-domed ecology experiment in the Arizona desert, project ...

In the 25 years since the first enclosure of eight people inside Biosphere 2 came to an end, Columbia University and now the University of Arizona have tried to rebrand the unique space as a tool for ...

The deep biosphere -- the realm of sediments far below the seafloor -- harbors a vast ecosystem of bacteria, archaea, and fungi that are actively metabolizing, proliferating, and moving, according a ...

In the words of UNESCO, it can be considered ‘learning places for sustainable development’. (Image: FE) A Biosphere Reserve (BR) refers to an international recognition granted by UNESCO to selected ...

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 ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. With dreams of colonizing Mars, John P. Allen, who made his millions in oil, funded the ...

UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme today added 25 new sites, one of them transboundary, in 18 countries to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, which now numbers 714 biosphere reserves ...