Dec. 20, 2022 USDA awards over $4.7M to support 'climate-smart' food production The Arizona Partnership for Climate-Smart Food Crops will promote climate-smart food production practices and help farmers reduce water consumption and carbon emissions.
April 14, 2022 Researchers at Biosphere 2 will plant coffee trees to celebrate Earth Day Coffee is the world's most traded product, and it is highly vulnerable to climate change. Researchers at Biosphere 2 are studying coffee plant sensitivity and how growing and bean processing conditions affect flavor.
Oct. 12, 2021 Life on LEO: Plants to be Added to the Landscape Evolution Observatory at Biosphere 2 Surprisingly little is known about how rain moves through landscapes once it's on the ground. A $3.5 million grant will allow scientists to study the role of plants and microbes in the process.
Oct. 6, 2021 UArizona Partners on $10M USDA Grant to Expand Research on Growing Crops Under Solar Panels UArizona researchers are part of a national team analyzing how the practice of growing crops under solar panels can best be implemented across the country.
Nov. 23, 2020 $3M Grant Helps Students Bridge Sciences to Solve the World's Biggest Problems The National Science Foundation grant will support graduate students working across scientific disciplines on challenges ranging from climate change to sustainable food production.
Nov. 13, 2020 Choose Your Own Adventure at Reopened Biosphere 2 After temporarily closing due to COVID-19, Biosphere 2 is now welcoming visitors to tour the world-class research facility safely and at their own pace, using the updated Biosphere 2 Experience app.
Oct. 27, 2020 Sessions with a Scientist! Program Brings Biosphere 2 to Classrooms Around the World A new virtual program brings Biosphere 2 science and scientists to student groups wherever they may be on the first biosphere – planet Earth.
Dec. 16, 2019 'Rainforest Under Glass' Kissed by Rain After Two-Month Drought An experiment at Biosphere 2 forced the “hottest tropical rainforest in the world” through a controlled drought and recovery to see how climate change will affect Earth’s ecosystems.
Sept. 13, 2019 Biosphere 2 Rain Forest Closed During Drought Experiment Drought will soon descend on the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 rain forest, and an international research team will be ready with an array of instruments to record what unfurls under the glass.
Sept. 2, 2019 Agrivoltaics Proves Mutually Beneficial Across Food, Water, Energy Nexus A paper published in Nature Sustainability presents the first field-data assessment of outcomes of a multi-year study of agrivoltaics in dryland regions.