Texas billionaire Edward Bass — one of the founders of Biosphere 2 — gifted $30 million to the University of Arizona to support the research facility in Oracle, officials announced Wednesday. Bass is ...

It was only last month that we reported UNESCO had designated 12 new Geoparks from all over the planet, bringing the total number of protected areas up to a hefty 241. However, Friday June 5 was World ...

MANILA, Philippines — Unesco has added a town in Occidental Mindoro to its World Network of Biosphere Reserves, giving the Philippines a fifth site recognized for linking biodiversity protection with ...

Photos, videos and descriptions of the new Biosphere Reserves. New biosphere reserves have been designated in Albania, Algeria, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Canada ...

The 38th session of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) International Coordinating Council, held in Hernandarias, Paraguay, has officially approved today the designation of the Aruba ...

Troopers are on the scene of a two-vehicle, fatal collision on Oracle Rd. (State Route 77 - SR-77) at milepost 96, near the entrance to the Biosphere 2 science campus, says Arizona Department of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve has lost more than a third of its primary forest cover since the turn of the century. 2024 marked the biggest ...

The Hangzhou Strategic Action Plan 2026-35, adopted at UNESCO’s 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, in China, sets the global blueprint for conservation, development and research in the 759 ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds that 60% of global land areas are now already outside the locally defined ...

I can think of a shelf-full of books about forests, and nearly as many about the ocean or deserts. And consider how much ink has been spilled over expeditions to far-flung ecosystems, from the Amazon ...

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 ...