The plants on the moon are now dead. The Chang’e-4 probe entered a sleep mode on Sunday as the first lunar night after the probe’s landing started. The temperature could drop as low as about minus 170 ...

are no longer needed now that the Biosphere is no longer sealed. The west lung will be transformed into a “vertical farm” that will train LED lights on stacked racks of floating plants whose ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants are ...

The glass doesn't allow any UVA or UVB, so you're not going to get a suntan inside Biosphere 2. But as you can see, the plants here have been growing for nearly 35 years, and they're massive ...

That potentially doubles the projected lifespan of Earth's plants and animals ... of how long Earth can maintain a functioning biosphere – our only data for this in the entire Universe.

The results also show that the models overestimate the storage time of carbon in plants. Role of the biosphere Co-author Dr Charles Koven, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA ...

Thirty years ago last month, on Sept. 26, 1993, a group of eight weary, visionary adventurers “returned” to Earth after two years of living together in a miniature version of our world — a ...

Much attention had been focused on charismatic species when Biosphere 2 was put together. A biologist surveyed the world’s hummingbirds to find one with a bill the right shape to pollinate a variety ...

(Photo courtesy UNESCO) This reserve has been designated as one of Africa’s two Pleistocene Refugia for its rich biodiversity and endemic animals and plants. The biosphere reserve shelters ...

One attempt to answer these questions is to use so-called terrestrial biosphere models. These models encapsulate our understanding of how plants function and how they respond to changes in climate.

Biosphere 2—Earth being Biosphere 1 ... a room glowing purplish from grow lights that shine on a little stable of plants. Here we’re instructed to take off our shoes and descend a ladder ...