Researchers studying the deep biosphere, Earth’s largest ecosystem, have found evidence that life thriving miles below the planet’s surface may have played a far bigger role in shaping atmospheric ...
The Amazon-PIRE project will conduct experiments and train students within Biosphere 2's tropical forest biome, pictured here. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...
Most days, you’ll find Joost van Haren tromping through Arizona’s only tropical rainforest. An assistant research professor at the UA, van Haren works in the rainforest at Biosphere 2—in the middle of ...
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.
Standing atop Biosphere 2’s iconic rooftop dressed in the same spacesuit George Clooney wore in the 2013 film “Gravity,” ...