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

Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in Biosphere 2 during its first closure experiment, offers a compelling insider’s view of the dramatic story behind the mini-world in his forthcoming ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The human terrarium. The first reality show. Spaceship earth. On Sept. 26, 1991, four men and four women began a two-year ...

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 ...

In the Arizona desert, a vast glass structure sits far from cities and farmland. It was built to test an idea that once seemed urgent and uncertain. Could humans survive inside a closed world with no ...

This image released by Neon shows Dr. Roy Walford, foreground, with candidates for the Biosphere 2 Project from the documentary "Spaceship Earth." (Peter Menzel/Neon via AP) During lockdown, have you ...

John de Dios Steve DeLong, project manager for Biosphere 2’s Landscape Evolution Observatory, thanks his large team for their hard work with getting the project up and running. DeLong will leave ...