Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Almost 30 years ago, eight researchers entered a glass-walled recreation of Earth's collective ...

The Biosphere 2 facility, specifically its Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO), serves as a research platform to investigate how life transforms landscapes, ranging from local environments to ...

Thanks to its transdisciplinary, collaborative approach, stakeholders, local knowledge-holders, youth, and scientists came ...

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The two actors play lifelong friends who have a lot to deal with in Mel Eslyn's doomsday comedy, premiering in Toronto. By John DeFore Post-apocalyptic survival meets the anxious buddy humor of ...

Out in the desert in Arizona, "analog astronauts" gathered this weekend for an annual conference in a giant, futuristic habitat called Biosphere 2. The event, called the Analog Astronaut Conference, ...

As the second in a three-part training series – following the first session held at Penang Hill Biosphere Reserve, Malaysia ...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. IFC Films releases the film in theaters and on VOD on Friday, July 7. Toward the beginning of ...

There are so many flavors of the apocalypse film, including the bombast and spectacle à la Roland Emmerich and the punky desert chic of a “Mad Max.” But there’s also the lo-fi take, the kind of ...

If filmmakers wanted to make movies during the pandemic, especially low-budget independent comedies, it helped if their story was self-contained. "Biosphere" is self-contained, just two actors and a ...

This review was originally published in 2023. More than any other film you’ll see this year, there is unlikely to be as wonderfully unexpected a work as the one writer-director Mel Eslyn has created ...