Learn about UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves and why you should visit them.

Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to ...

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 ...

The Yucatán Peninsula contains an abundance of eco-parks and natural reserves, but few compare to the breadth and natural wonder of Sian Ka'an – a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Just south of Tulum, the ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series detailing developments in the UA’s operation of Biosphere 2. The UA looks to tackle “”grand challenges”” and inform the public about science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biosphere 2 is a research facility located near Tucson, Ariz. Katja Schulz/Flickr, CC BY From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from ...

Primetime Emmy winners Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass are stuck together in the teaser for the end-of-the-world dramedy Biosphere. In Mel Eslyn's surprise Toronto International Film Festival debut ...

A well-known nature reserve came under Russian fire A fire broke out in the Danube Biosphere Reserve following a Russian ...

The so-called director of the biosphere reserve collaborated with the Russian forces and organised the illegal transfer of ...

There are so many flavors of the apocalypse film, including the bombast and spectacle à la Roland Emmerich and the punky desert chic of a “Mad Max.” But there’s also the lo-fi take, the kind of ...