UArizona's Biosphere 2: A look at three decades of climate research

[Ptah]

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 Arizona's Biosphere 2.

A two-year project inside Biosphere 2 that started in 1991, captured headlines around the world. While that experiment ended in 1993, the research at Biosphere 2 has continued through the years.

Biosphere 2 is 3.14 acres of science. Inside, human made ecosystems, dedicated to helping us understand the future of our planet.

A world within walls, where habitats grow and research thrives, built to better understand how our Earth operates.

If you'd like to learn more about the research at Biosphere 2 or how to visit, you can click here.

https://www.kvoa.com/news/arizona/uarizonas-biosphere-2-a-look-at-three-decades-of-climate-research/article_b5840eec-ea31-11ee-a9dc-4706970a1f48.html

[hunter]

1. It's pretty much punctured the idea of closed ecosystems in outer space.

If we are ever so foolish as to build human outposts on Mars they'll be more like a submarines than greenhouse gardens.

Maintaining robust human habitable micro-ecosystems is going to be much more difficult than we thought.

[2naSalit]

2. And for some reason...

So many still think our species could live for any length of time anywhere but on this planet. Billions of $ are spent on this idea when it could have been used for betterment of our situation here. In the end, we're not going to survive in physical form.

[mike_c]

3. I visited in the late 90s

I was part of a delegation visiting to explore research collaborations with what is now Cal Poly Humboldt. Nothing ever came of the collaboration, but it was a fascinating site visit. That would have been in 1997 or '98, I think.