A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The human terrarium. The first reality show. Spaceship earth. On Sept. 26, 1991, four men and four women began a two-year ...

Biosphere 2 was a highly ambitious experiment to simulate a self-sustaining Mars colony in the Arizona desert. Eight men and women locked themselves inside for 2 years and experienced one incredible ...

ORACLE — They’ve ripped out the soil that once grew food for eight biospherians sealed inside a glass replica of the Earth for two years, starting in 1991. A partition now segregates Biosphere 2’s ...

ORACLE, Ariz. (KVOA) — Just about an hour out of Tucson is the world's largest controlled environment dedicated to understanding the impacts of climate change. We're talking about the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biosphere 2 started with eight scientists and a very ambitious experiment. Now, almost 35 years later, it's still being used for cutting-edge research. Scientists continue to use it to study Earth's ...

Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in Biosphere 2 during its first closure experiment, offers a compelling insider’s view of the dramatic story behind the mini-world in his forthcoming ...