As NCERT has explained, the biosphere includes all the living components of the earth. It consists of all plants and animals, including all the microorganisms that live on the planet earth and their ...

Nestled in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains, around 31 miles from Tucson, there exists an oasis; a collection of environments one would never anticipate to exist in the scorched Arizona desert.

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 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 ...

Away from the cacophony of urban life, most of us look for respite in sites with natural beauty, lush greenery, and peaceful surroundings. As the tourist season approaches, it is no surprise that ...

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 ...