The political and social issues we wrestled with in the 1960s and 1970s still haunt us in the 2020s. From social justice to climate change, space exploration to alternative economies, it is curious ...

In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the Arizona desert, a kind of fake Earth built to see whether humans could ...

Eight people stepped into an airlock in the Arizona desert on the 26th of September, 1991, and stepped into something that was to be an example of the human future. Biosphere 2 was a massive enclosed ...

In September 1991, amid much media fanfare, eight people entered a closed experimental facility called Biosphere 2 for a two-year stint in total isolation. They endured hunger, a dangerous rise in CO2 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A page from the Deseret News on Sept. 26, 1991, as the eight "Biospherians" entered their enclosed life biosphere in Oracle, Ariz.

ORACLE, ARIZONA (dpa) – At its start 10 years ago Biosphere 2 was intended as a test to see whether humans could survive on Mars and other planets. Four men and four women attempted to survive totally ...

Thirty years ago last month, on Sept. 26, 1993, a group of eight weary, visionary adventurers “returned” to Earth after two years of living together in a miniature version of our world — a ...

Dear EarthTalk: What ever became of the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona and what did we learn from it? – B.C., Tampa, FL Biosphere 2 project began in 1984, led by John Allen who called it “The Human ...

Edward Bass is 46 years old and--as heir to a fortune that originated with his great-uncle Sid Richardson, a Texas oil wildcatter--is one of the wealthiest men in the United States. But although many ...

I rented the movie on YouTube. Takeaways: 1) Save a buck and get the SD version - most of the thing is from archive VHS or 8mm film 2) I and my wife _really_ enjoyed ...