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In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...
“Spaceship Earth,” directed by Matt Wolf (“Bayard & Me,” “Teenage”), tells the story of John Allen and the group of people behind Biosphere 2, a kind of scale model of the Earth that ...
Biosphere 2 once hosted radical experiments for a self-sustaining ecosystem. During COVID-19, visitors can "tour" the living lab from their cars.
This collaborative project provides a new opportunity to holistically evaluate and model mechanisms and interactions driving ecosystem-scale responses to environmental stressors. Biosphere 2 ...
The project, a for-profit venture, had many critics. “Biosphere 2 looks more like a theme park than an R&D site,” wrote Newsweek in 1991, “the gift shop, in a converted test module, is ...
Successful biosphere reserves and their relevance for Georgia Currently there are 686 biosphere reserves in 122 countries, including 20 transboundary sites, with highly varying degrees of success.
“Spaceship Earth,” directed by Matt Wolf (“Bayard & Me,” “Teenage”), tells the story of John Allen and the group of people behind Biosphere 2, a kind of scale model of the Earth that ...