Over at Make Magazine they're celebrating the long life of their biosphere companion George ... upside down by curious (and slightly unruly) kids at an elementary school, and traveled to at ...

The UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch sits in the canton of Luzern, Switzerland. Switzerland's first biosphere reserve, designated in 2001, encompasses the 245-square mile Emme River valley between Bern ...

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 ...

Biosphere has a unique ability to simulate the ... the environment of Mars or a human habitat on Mars——and excite kids about science by letting them run their own Mars simulations.

Food crops are coming back to Biosphere 2, but they won’t be planted in the 3 acres under glass at the University of Arizona research facility in Oracle. A company named Civic Farms plans to ...

Talk about a white elephant: Biosphere 2, a glass- enclosed laboratory that was designed to simulate the Earth’s environment, is for sale. The $200 million facility, 16 miles north of Tucson ...

They made their way to a looming monument of geodesic domes and pyramids known as Biosphere 2. The three-acre complex contained a miniature rain forest, a mangrove, a desert and a coral reef ...

The workshop was led by Vhembe Biosphere Reserve staff, with support from the University of Venda, the National Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment, the South African Youth Biodiversity ...