Visitors can once again roam the grounds of the UA’s Biosphere 2. The facility closed to visitors because of COVID-19 in March, then reopened for driving tours in August. The next phase of reopening ...

University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 has been the site for research on ecological systems and human habitation since it was built in the late 1980s. Now, the 3-acre ecological laboratory about 30 miles ...

The Arizona Department of Public Safety says one person has died following a crash on SR-77 (Oracle Road) near Biosphere. 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 ...

JOHN DE DIOS Researchers at Biosphere 2 are looking into the idea of a Model City. The idea is to make the 40-acre campus into a sustainable, solar-powered and energy-efficient example for ...

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.